scholarly journals Mind the gaps: On the North/South Nexus in the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Kabanda Mwansa ◽  
Florian Kiuppis
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
The North ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Shed Light

In this conceptual article, we present the “Sport for Development and Peace” (SDP) discourse as a case of scientific rationalization. First, we shed light on the ongoing theory debate around the “global/local problematique” in globalization and global policy research in comparative and international education. We then link up with the SDP discourse and show that academic work mostly features research related to the fact that the majority of the SDP programmes and ways of implementing them have been conceptualized in the Global North, yet are to be implemented in the Global South. In that context, we illustrate International Organizations as sites of scientized knowledge production and translation. Scientific rationalization occurs when specialized technical knowledge and management techniques enter the discourse.

scholarly journals TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIAL COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
KEITA TAKAYAMA ◽  
ARATHI SRIPRAKASH ◽  
RAEWYN CONNELL
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
The Cold War

This article, which serves to introduce the special issue on “Contesting Coloniality: Re- thinking Knowledge Production and Circulation in Comparative and International Edu- cation,” brings to the fore the rarely acknowledged colonial entanglements of knowledge in the field of comparative and international education (CIE). We begin by showing how colonial logics underpin the scholarship of one of the field’s founding figures, Isaac L. Kandel. These logics gainedlegitimacy through the Cold War geopolitical contexts in which the field was established and have shaped subsequent approaches including the much-debated world-culture approach to globalization in education. 

scholarly journals Sociology from the Global South and the Global North: Systematising Characteristics and Relations

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Kseniia Cherniak
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Global South ◽  
Definite Description ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Development Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Orientation ◽  
Global North ◽  
Academic Relations

The article defines characteristics and relations between sociology from the Global South and the Global North, depicted in the literature. Despite the variety of research on the topic, studies of Northern and Southern sociology lack definite description of regional sociologies and their (unequal) relations as well as clear indicators used to assign countries to either region in terms of sociology that still uses classical geopolitical division. On the basis of research of knowledge production and academic relations between Southern and Northern sociology, the author defines main issues of discussion and specific characteristics of these regional sociologies and systematises them under one model. The model reflects four main areas of confrontation between sociology from the North and the South: origin and historical development; research orientation and capabilities; recognition and influence on the global scale; research cooperation and flow of knowledge. In addition, the article presents the alternative model for the recently emerged resistant Southern sociology. In the further research the model can be used to define understudied issues, (re)assign countries concerning sociology and investigate the actual characteristics of Southern and Northern sociology in comparison to the ones presented in the research.

scholarly journals Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan Dutta ◽  
Srividya Ramasubramanian ◽  
Mereana Barrett ◽  
Christine Elers ◽  
Devina Sarwatay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Public Ownership ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
The North ◽  
Global North ◽  
Culture Centered

Abstract Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Science processes co-opt and erase Southern epistemologies, working to create and reproduce new enclosures of extraction that serve data colonialism-capitalism. In this essay, drawing on our ongoing negotiations of community-led culture-centered advocacy and activist strategies that resist the racist, gendered, and classed structures of neocolonial knowledge production in the metropole in the North, we attend to Southern practices of Openness that radically disrupt the whiteness of hegemonic Open Science. These decolonizing practices foreground data sovereignty, community ownership, and public ownership of knowledge resources as the bases of resistance to the colonial-capitalist interests of hegemonic Open Science.

scholarly journals Out of the Closet and into the Classroom: Reassessing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Comparative and International Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
Oren Pizmony-Levy ◽  
Wenli Liu ◽  
Carla Moleiro ◽  
Thabo Msibi ◽  
Marcos Nascimento ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Comparative And International Education

scholarly journals Hidden features in global knowledge production: (re)positioning theory and practice in academic writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Windle
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Global North

ABSTRACT A key challenge for applied linguistics is how to deal with the historical power imbalance in knowledge production between the global north and south. A central objective of critical applied linguistics has been to provide new epistemological foundations that address this problem, through the lenses of post-colonial theory, for example. This article shows how the structure of academic writing, even within critical traditions, can reinforce unequal transnational relations of knowledge. Analysis of Brazilian theses and publications that draw on the multiliteracies framework identifies a series of discursive moves that constitute “hidden features” (STREET, 2009), positioning “northern” theory as universal and “southern” empirical applications as locally bounded. The article offers a set of questions for critical reflection during the writing process, contributing to the literature on academic literacies.

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