Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South: Questioning Inequality and Under-Representation

by Márton Demeter

Book Overview

This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production. The author analyses the serious bias towards scholars and institutions from this region: he argues that this phenomenon causes serious disadvantages not only for authors and institutions, but global science as well by impeding the flow of fresh, innovative scholarship. This book uses a combination of field theory and world-systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303052700X
• ISBN13: 9783030527006
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"