1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Knowledge is a result of never-ending processes of circulation. This accessible volume is the first comprehensive multidisciplinary work to explore these processes through the perspective of scholars working outside of Anglo-American paradigms. Through a variety of literature reviews, examples of recent research and in-depth case studies, the chapters demonstrate that the analysis of knowledge circulation requires a series of ontological and epistemic commitments that impact its conceptualisation and methodologies.
Bringing diverse viewpoints from across the globe and from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), this wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection offers a broad and cutting-edge overview of outstanding research on academic knowledge circulation. The book is structured in seven sections: (i) key concepts in studying the circulation of academic knowledge; (ii) spaces and actors of circulation; (iii) academic media and knowledge circulation; (iv) the political economy of academic knowledge circulation; (v) the geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge; (vi) the relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledges; and (vii) methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge.
This handbook will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in the circulation of knowledge.
Towards a Collective Introduction
Rigas Arvanitis, Chandni Basu, Natacha Bacolla, Stéphane Dufoix, Stefan Fornos Klein, Wiebke Keim, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann, Tobias Schlechtriemen and Hebe Vessuri
Section I: Key concepts in studying the circulation of academic knowledge
- Writing: on the Entanglements of Producing and Circulating Academic Knowledge
- Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge as Reception
- Translation of Knowledge
Rafael Y. Schögler - Academic Knowledge Circulation Enacting Reality
- Consecration of Academic Knowledge in Circulation
Fernanda Beigel - Localisation of Circulating Academic Knowledge
Philipp Altmann - Recontextualising Circulating Knowledge
- The Circulation of Incorrect Information
Jochen Gläser
Larissa Schindler and Hilmar Schäfer
Laurent Afresnse
Claudio Ramos Zincke
Xiaoxue Gao
Section II: Spaces and actors of circulation
9. Theories and Practices of Knowledge Brokering
Morgan Meyer and Victoria Brun
10. Highly Skilled Migration and Knowledge Circulation
Sheila V. Siar
11. Political Oppression, War and Emigration: Their Effects on the Circulation of Scholars
Cherry Schrecker
12. The Role of Religious Actors in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Mrinalini Sebastian
13. International Scientific Associations and Conferences as Agents in the Unequal Circulation of Knowledge
Thibaud Boncourt, Susanne Koch and Elena Matviichuk
14. Expertise within International Organisations and Circulation of Knowledge
Carlos R.S. Milani and Benoît Martin
Section III: Academic media and knowledge circulation
15. The Role of the Book and Publishing Markets in Knowledge Circulation
Martina Hacke
16. The role of Bibliographic Indices for Knowledge Circulation
Jonathan Voges
17. The Role of Academic Journals in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Mariann Slíz, Panna Szabó and Tamás Farkas
18. The Circulation of Academic Knowledge in the Medium of School Programmes
Viktoria Gräbe and Michael Wermke
19. Circulating Knowledge through Intermediary Objects in Scientific Cooperative Networks
Dominique Vinck and Constanza Pérez-Martelo
Section IV: The political economy of academic knowledge circulation
20. Knowledge Dependency and Circulation
Francesco Maniglio
21. Digital Object Identifier: Privatising Knowledge Circulation through Infrastructuring
Angela Okune and Leslie Chan
22. Knowledge Machines: A Complex Web of History and Technology
Mark Bernstein
23. Free Circulation of Academic and Artistic Knowledge in the Context of Cognitive Capitalism
Lynda Avendaño Santana
24. Knowledge Circulation and Unequal Partnerships
Montserrat Alom Bartrolí, Xilin Huang and Rigas Arvanitis
25. The Changing Economics of Academic Publishing and the Discourse of "Predatory" Science
Thibaud Boncourt and David Mills
26. Knowledge Circulation and the Institutionalisation of Climate Science as a New Academic Field
Tomás Undurraga, Gonzalo Aguirre and Sasha Mudd
27. Crossing Disciplines and the Role of Knowledge Circulation for the Emergence of New Interdisciplinary Fields
Philippe Hamman, Christopher Schliephake and Jason Groves
Section V: The geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge
28. Academic Knowledge, Translation and Geopolitics
Manuel Pavón-Belizón
29. The Construction of Academic Prestige and Its Role in Knowledge Circulation
Diogo Pinheiro
30. Representation and the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge
Nil Uzun
31. Knowledge Circulation and the Gaze of Epistemic Others: towards an African Epistemology
Théophile Ambadiang
32. Indigenisation: The Significance of the Debates for the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Junpeng Li, Songying Xu, Gang Zhou, Taiwen Yang and Zhiqiang Zhang
Section VI: The relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledge
33. Science and Society: Approaches for the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia
Michael Weinhardt and Katharina Löhr
34. Newspapers and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Simone Jung
35. Consultancy Praxis: Dynamics of Circulation between Academia and State Knowledge
Natacha Bacolla and Jimena Caravaca
36. Experts and Social Movements in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Christian Colella
37. Addressing Inclusion and Sustainability in the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia
Gabriela Bortz and Ayelén Gázquez
Section VII: Methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge
38. Ethnography and the Circulation of Knowledge
Marko Monteiro
39. Biographic Methods and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Daniele Cantini
40. Prosopography and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Constantin Brissaud
41. Actor-Network Theory and the Materiality for Researching Academic Knowledge Circulation
Manuel Bolz, Stefanie Mallon and Marcela Suárez Estrada
42. Field Theory and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Laurent Afresne, Clara Ruvituso and Gernot Saalmann
43. Bibliometrics and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Julián D. Cortés, Katerina Bohle-Carbonell and Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez
44. Using Digital Text-Based Approaches to Study Knowledge Circulation
Matías Milia
45. Studying Metaphors and the Understanding of Knowledge Circulation
Eszter Pál
Biography
Wiebke Keim is CNRS researcher at the SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe) research centre at Strasbourg University, France. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and science, the history of sociology, the epistemology of the social sciences, critiques of Eurocentrism, fascisms and post-fascisms. She is the author of Vermessene Disziplin: Zum konterhegemonialen Potential afrikanischer und lateinamerikanischer Soziologien (2008) and Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local: South African Labour Studies from the Apartheid Era into the New Millennium (2017), and co-author of Gauging and Engaging Deviance, 1600-2000 (2014), and of Scripting Defiance: Four Sociological Vignettes (2022).
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers at Mexico’s Council for Science and Technology and founding editor-in-chief of the Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology, and Society journal. His research interests include Science & Technology Studies (STS), science and technology policies in Latin America, the international circulation of knowledge within the social sciences, and the relationship between cities and culture. He is author of Material Hermeneutics in Political Science (2013); Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production (Routledge, 2014), and The Circulation of European Knowledge: Niklas Luhmann in the Hispanic Americas and co-editor of La Teoría del Actor-Red desde América Latina (2022).
Rigas Arvanitis, Ceped, Université Paris Cité-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
Natacha Bacolla, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Chandni Basu, Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany
Stéphane Dufoix, Université Paris-Nanterre and senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, France
Stefan Klein, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Brasília (SOL/ICS), Brazil
Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia,
Barbara Riedel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany
Clara Ruvituso, Mecila/Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany
Gernot Saalmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany
Tobias Schlechtriemen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany
Hebe Vessuri, Independent researcher
