scholarly journals Encounters with borders

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Priya Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Global South ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Academic Subject ◽  
Visa Application ◽  
Global North ◽  
Limit Access

This article examines (im)obility in the global visa regime through the experiences of a Global South academic working in the Global North. Drawing on an autoethnographic account of a visa application, this article outlines the ways in which the global visa regime negatively affects a Global South academic’s life. Visa regulations constitute a particular Global South academic subject in the Global North, one whose academic career is characterised by uncertainty and anxiety, as visas can limit access to promotions and to fieldwork and research opportunities. Visa experiences can thus contribute to alienation and non-belonging of Global South scholars in academia, while impacting knowledge production and teaching.

scholarly journals The University as Utopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Nivedita Menon
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Global North ◽  
The University ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract This article addresses three interrelated themes: the institutional transformations of Indian universities since India's independence, debates in India over the assumed universality of Western modes of knowledge production and transmission, and the overarching philosophical question of knowledge as such. It argues that the question of power and prejudice acquires a different dimension when we consider the university of the Global South. If our struggle is to recover knowledges buried by history, to subvert existing knowledge formations, and to generate new knowledges out of local histories and practices, then we cannot be training ourselves merely to enter existing fields of settled knowledges that have emerged from the history and location of the Global North. The article concludes with a look at some attempts that have been made to decolonize knowledge in the Indian academy, which draw on resources from the Global South, while opening up both “Western” and “Indian” knowledges to interrogation.

Global patterns in the publishing of academic knowledge: Global North, global South

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran M Collyer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
International Study ◽  
Global South ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Global North

Much is made of the persistent structures of inequality that determine the production and distribution of goods and services across the world, but less is known about the inequalities of global academic knowledge production, and even a smaller amount about the nature of the publication industry upon which this production process depends. Reflecting on an international study of academic publishing that has been framed within the lens of Southern theory, this article explores some of the issues facing those who work and publish in the global South, and offers an analysis of several of the mechanisms that assist to maintain the inequalities of the knowledge system. The focus then moves to an examination of some recent developments in academic publishing which challenge the dominance of the global North: the building of alternative transnational circuits of publishing that provide effective pathways for the distribution of academic knowledge from ‘inside the global South’.

Navigating Shomoyscapes: Time and faculty life in the urban Global South

2021 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2110580
Author(s):  
Riyad A Shahjahan ◽  
Nisharggo Niloy ◽  
Tasnim A Ema
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Global South ◽  
Temporal Constraints ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
University Politics ◽  
Global North ◽  
Faculty Experience ◽  
Temporal Agency

We aim to decenter the Global North knowledge production about time in higher education (HE) by introducing and applying a culturally sustaining concept of shomoyscapes. While the Bengali word “shomoy” literally means “time,” it goes beyond “clock time” and also refers to memories, present moments, feelings, a particular duration, and/or signifier for a temporal engagement. A shomoyscape entails a complex temporal landscape of different temporal categories, constraints, agencies, and to various degrees, embodies hybrid times (i.e., modern time coexisting with non-linear local/traditional time). Drawing on interviews and participant observations with 22 faculty in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we demonstrate the efficacy of shomoyscapes by illuminating how faculty experience, contest, and manipulate their time(s) amid rapid socio-economic transformations of Dhaka, an urban, Global South mega city. We show how shomoyscapes manifest as faculty experience temporal constraints, such as (a) traffic, (b) party-based university politics, and (c) caring for others. We suggest that Bangladeshi faculty experience and navigate shomoyscapes that are constituted by both larger temporal constraints (spatial, structural, or relational) and their temporal agency in response to these same constraints. Using a temporal lens, we contribute to a more in depth understanding of the experiences of faculty working and living in an urban, Global South context, highlighting how life “outside the academy” spills over into working “inside the academy,” rather than vice versa. We argue that shomoyscapes offer a useful temporal heuristic to help contextualize human/social relations in different arenas of social life that would otherwise remain invisible.

scholarly journals Vehicle for Southern African Knowledge? Men and Masculinities and Research from South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Robert Morrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Publication Record ◽  
Global North ◽  
Men And Masculinities

Knowledge production is dominated by publications in and from the global North. This has given rise to a concern that certain perspectives and agendas have global prominence whereas others, from the global South, are marginalized. Analyzing the publication record of Men and Masculinities with respect to articles authored by scholars from, or working in, South Africa, I argue that the journal, despite being founded, based and published in the United States, has a very good record of providing space for Southern gendered perspectives to emerge.

Engaging the Academy

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Brian Ekdale
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Global South ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Structural Nature ◽  
Global North

We are witnessing a global turn toward ethno-nationalism and xenophobia that raises important questions about what those who are engaged in scholarly knowledge production are doing to implicitly or explicitly perpetuate ethnocentrism. This chapter focuses on the problem of Eurocentrism, and Americentrism more specifically, in journalism and mass communication studies. Although public engagement typically focuses on sharing scholarly knowledge with audiences outside of academia, scholars need to be open and responsive to critiques of our own professional practices. This chapter first documents inequities in scholarly knowledge production between the Global North and Global South, and then offers a brief contextualization of the structural nature of these inequities. Finally, the chapter recommends specific practices journalism scholars based in the Global North can do to become better allies of their colleagues in the Global South, and highlights recent efforts to engage the academy around the issue of inequities in scholarly knowledge production.

scholarly journals (Re)integrating Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Global Political Economy: Continuing the Conversation

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 710-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Chisholm ◽  
Saskia Stachowitsch
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Global North ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Considerations to integrate feminist security studies (FSS) and global political economy (GPE) were first systematically reflected in the Critical Perspectives section of the June 2015 issue of this journal. That collection presented engaging essays on how the divide between the two fields has evolved and ways we can seek to overcome it—or, indeed, whether we should attempt to bridge the divide. This debate has gained momentum in workshops and conference panels attempting to build bridges between the two feminist subfields. Given the richness of scholarship associated with the two fields, we aim to continue this productive conversation by bringing new voices and ideas into the debate and by engaging in further possibilities for theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancement that allow for a more comprehensive approach to global gendered inequalities and hierarchies—one that is not disciplined by academic boundaries. With this, we hope to challenge the constructed and sometimes violently sustained borders between public and private, domestic and international, political and economic, Global North and Global South, as well as disciplinary “camp structures” (Parashar 2013) that too often shape academic, and also feminist, knowledge production.

scholarly journals The Import of Southern Criminology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Zimmermann de Meireles Philippi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Significant Characteristic ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Global North

Southern Criminology is a post-colonial movement of knowledge production that has political, empirical and theoretical facades. This article argues that the most significant characteristic of Southern Criminology is the highlighting of the everlasting criminogenic effects of colonialism. It challenges the suggestion made by Roger Matthews, in his paper “False starts, wrong turns and dead ends: Reflections of recent developments in Criminology,” that the greatest import of such a movement is the defiance of universalism of the theories of the Global North. It does so by examining the concepts of Southern Criminology, the risks of recognising the defiance of universalism as its main output and the potentialities of recognising its post-colonial characteristics for the advancement of theoretical criminology both in the Global South and the Global North.

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 Introduction to Special issue: Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 104398622110504
Author(s):  
Vania Ceccato
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Criminology

This article introduces the special issue “Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century” that is composed of seven studies of contemporary security problems and related public security initiatives in Brazil. They are multidisciplinary contributions employing a large variety of methods, written by researchers based on Brazilian universities or research executed in cooperation with international colleagues. This is a unique and valuable reference source for researchers interested in Brazilian and Latin American security challenges as well as attempts to address them. By recognizing current barriers in knowledge production and sharing, the special issue calls for the creation of new opportunities for joint knowledge from the “criminologies” of the Global South and those from the Global North, befitting an inclusive global criminology worthy of the 21st century.

scholarly journals Higher Learning and City Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Sibanda
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
City Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Global North ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT The paper explores the use and contribution of institutions of higher learning in innovative city development strategies through knowledge production. Higher learning institutions in the Global North have become central in the redevelopment of post-industrial cities that can no longer depend on heavy industries but knowledge through the adoption of triple helix models. In the Global South, higher learning institutions have lagged in leading redevelopment initiatives. This paper uses an exploratory approach in examining how universities, through knowledge production and dissemination, can lead the growth agenda in the city development. It makes use of East London as a case study where knowledge-driven initiatives have the potential to reinvent the city. The paper concludes that, by embracing knowledge-based approaches, great opportunities exist for collaborations between the city and universities in the growth and redevelopment of East London, and other cities in the Global South.

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