Reflections on the politics and practices of knowledge production beyond the Anglo‐American core: An introductory note

Space and Culture as Critical Practice and as Space of Culture

“…This is related to the changing relationship between states and universities under neoliberal policies that have attempted to commercialize academia and to bring productivity and effectiveness measures to bear on their management. Hammett and Hoogendoorn (2012) note the further requirement that academics write in English in order to publish in the ISI journals, which are predominantly British and American. Such lines of exclusion create new global academic peripheries (Bański & Ferenc, 2013; Canagarajah, 1996, 2002).…”

Insider/Outsider Issues for Development Researchers from the Global South

“…For many decades, research within geography and related disciplines has debated issues related to the insider/outsider dichotomy and the importance of a researcher's membership status on the outcome of qualitative inquiry and knowledge production (Madge ; Merton ; Naples ; Rose ; Rubin ; Sidaway ). Knowledge production within geography, and indeed all the social sciences, has historically mirrored this insider/outsider dichotomy through the North/South divide and First World/Third World research (Sidaway ; Twyman et al ), thus creating and reinforcing core/periphery academic identities (Hammett and Hoogendoorn ). Consequently, the knowledge produced flows vertically from the North to the South institutionally, materially and epistemically in often patronizing and solution‐driven ways (Ellerman ; Ellerman et al ; Mawdsley et al ; McFarlane ).…”