The future of African Studies: what we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research

Nolte, Insa

doi:10.1080/13696815.2019.1584552

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“…The industrial countries keep privileges that result in a negative self-perception of African scholars. 51 Hence, the international network of GC research is still mainly dominated by industrial countries. After all, the growing participation of emerging economies is changing the global balance affecting new ways of scientific working.…”

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Gastric Cancer: Bibliometric Analysis of Epidemiological, Geographical and Socio-Economic Parameters of the Global Research Landscape

Klingelhöfer

Braun

Schöffel

et al. 2020

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Background: Although the incidence and mortality of gastric cancer (GC) decreased in the last years, some countries remain highly affected. Especially in high-income economies the cases of cardia types are steadily increasing. Currently, GC is ranked third as cause for cancer death worldwide, whereby two-thirds of deaths still occur in lowincome countries. But the global numbers are changing, and new regional challenges must be addressed. Methods: Therefore, this disease has been chosen for in-depth bibliometric analyses that combines the evaluation of publication meta-data with density equalizing visualization techniques. This study focuses on the chronological and geographical characteristics of GC research worldwide. Epidemiological and socio-economic parameters were analyzed and the influence of political framework conditions was examined. In addition, international collaborations and research priorities were evaluated. Results: In the last years, the publication numbers are rising more extensively in comparison to other cancer types. Albeit the usual leading positions, the United States is not the most publishing country on GC. It occupies the third position. Instead, China and Japan are the most publishing countries and together with South Korea also the key players as well as the most affected countries. These countries’ governments are also the main donors for GC-research. The number of articles and the expenditures for research and development (R&D) as well as the incidence rate are correlated. Despite the scarce contribution of low-economic countries to the publication output, international collaborations lead to a modest output in those regions. Conclusion: This study pools background information for scientists, practitioners, funders and decision-makers by providing information on the development and priorities of GC research. Adaptive international approaches and partnerships are crucial to meet future changing epidemiological features worldwide.

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Gastric Cancer: Bibliometric Analysis of Epidemiological, Geographical and Socio-Economic Parameters of the Global Research Landscape

Klingelhöfer

Braun

Schöffel

et al. 2020

Int J Health Policy Manag

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“…Insa Nolte noted that in order for a pro-African editorial policy to emerge, journals must devise strategies to increase the number of African authors. 53 This paper calls attention to this necessity. ultimately, journals based in the global North are not fundamentally designed to defend and further the pro-African interests of African studies.…”

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Reflections on a Common Purpose in Expanding the Frontiers of Global African Scholarship

Fagunwa¹

2022

Ufahamu

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The enormous contributions of global African scholars to the academic fields of arts, social sciences, and humanities cannot be understated. This accomplishment has not received adequate recognition in a world dominated by Western scholarship. This domination is not unexpected because the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge are historically charged, both politically and economically. It is not accidental that the domineering "international" publishers and journals in the global academy are based in the West. Knowledge production in the field of African studies has been affected by this reality. Hence, there is an urgent need to transcend current methodological and pedagogical approaches. Because knowledge is the bulwark of the survival of any group of people, global African scholars in the field of African studies have the mandate of heeding the warnings of the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop. Diop has argued that for African scholarship to attain the distinct recognition it deserves, scholars have the duty of uncovering the commonness and interconnectedness of global African peoples' historical experiences. While it is correct that geography plays a great role in the production of historical knowledge, the direction of African studies can be aimed at creating a platform for a homogenized pan-African mandate. This paper charged that in achieving the mission of adequate knowledge production by African scholars for the use of global Africans and of the world, the African academy must necessarily be liberated from the dominance of Western scholarship. There will be a reliance on primary and secondary sources in making a case for an encompassing pan-African emancipatory scholarship.

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“…Past Chair of the African Studies Association, Insa Nolte (2019), argues that, despite the enduring legacies of colonial power, including the power to represent and to exclude the others being studied, Area Studies associations have been rapidly shifting towards a more equitable footing. Unfortunately, just as Area Studies efforts to decolonise really took hold, the British Academy quietly defunded the Learned Societies 16 .…”

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“…But the decline of these Learned Societies – most now functioning as charities or supported by paid‐access journals threatened by Open Access requirements – has diminished the diversity of interdisciplinary spaces where scholars of regions or nations can gather. Ironically, Area Studies, now increasingly driven by the concerns of scholars originating in regions or nations of interest and studying the specificities of the global shaping the daily lives of people living within them (Nolte, 2019), has been superseded by an often‐ahistorical and potentially neo‐colonial framing of “the global” (Kahn, 2014).…”

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Towards framing the global in global development: Prospects for development geography

McKay

2021

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This paper examines data in the public sphere on the global scope of geography’s UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects. Building on decolonial critiques of development research, I argue that geography should frame “the global” of global research as a sphere of ethical choices in research design and practice. The distribution of funded projects in the UKRI Gateway data suggests geographers succeed where they extend on the more worthy aspects of the discipline’s Area Studies legacy. The discipline’s engagements with early career researchers, international colleagues, and the development sector, however, have potentially been reshaped by the GCRF and thus need closer examination. While the UK government has brought the GCRF programme to a close, further work on these themes should inform the next iteration of global research. The ethical choices that make research global will remain fundamental to equitable design and impact in global development projects, thus scholars in development geography should prepare to make their projects more transparent and accountable.

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The future of African Studies: what we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research

Cited by 14 publications

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Gastric Cancer: Bibliometric Analysis of Epidemiological, Geographical and Socio-Economic Parameters of the Global Research Landscape

Gastric Cancer: Bibliometric Analysis of Epidemiological, Geographical and Socio-Economic Parameters of the Global Research Landscape

Reflections on a Common Purpose in Expanding the Frontiers of Global African Scholarship

Towards framing the global in global development: Prospects for development geography

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