Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

Edited by Wiebke Keim, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Rigas Arvanitis, Natacha Bacolla, Chandni Basu, Stéphane Dufoix, Stefan Klein, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Barbara Riedel, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Hebe Vessuri

Routledge, London
626 p., June 2023
DOI :10.4324/9781003290650

Abstract

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.

Table of contents

Towards a Collective Introduction

Rigas Arvanitis, Natacha Bacolla, Chandni Basu, Stéphane Dufoix, Wiebke Keim, Stefan Klein, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Barbara Riedel, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Hebe Vessuri, Rigas Arvanitis, Natacha Bacolla, Chandni Basu, Stéphane Dufoix, Wiebke Keim, Stefan Klein, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Hebe Vessuri

Section I | Key Concepts in Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge

chapter 1 | Writing On the Entanglements of Producing and Circulating Academic Knowledge
Larissa Schindler, Hilmar Schäfer
chapter 2| Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge as Reception
Laurent Afresne
chapter 3| Translation of Knowledge
Rafael Y. Schögler
chapter 4| Academic Knowledge Circulation Enacting Reality 1
Claudio Ramos Zincke
chapter 5| Circulation of Academic Knowledge and Recognition
Fernanda Beigel
chapter 6| Localisation of Circulating Academic Knowledge
Philipp Altmann
chapter 7| Recontextualising Circulating Knowledge
Xiaoxue Gao
chapter 8| The Circulation of Incorrect Information
Jochen Gläser

Section II | Spaces and Actors of Circulation

chapter 9| Theories and Practices of Knowledge Brokering
Morgan Meyer, Victoria Brun
chapter 10| Highly Skilled Migration and Knowledge Circulation
Sheila V. Siar
chapter 11| Political Oppression, War and Emigration. Their Effects on the Circulation of Scholars
Cherry Schrecker, Carmen Hendershott
chapter 12| The Role of Religious Actors in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Mrinalini Sebastian
chapter 13| International Scientific Associations and Conferences as Agents in the Unequal Circulation of Knowledge
Thibaud Boncourt, Susanne Koch, Elena Matviichuk
chapter 14| Expertise within International Organisations and Circulation of Knowledge
Carlos R.S. Milani, Benoît Martin

Section III | Academic Media and Knowledge Circulation

chapter 15| The Role of the Book and Publishing Markets in Knowledge Circulation
Martina Hacke
chapter 16| The Role of Bibliographic Indices for Knowledge Circulation
Jonathan Voges
chapter 17| The Role of Academic Journals in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Mariann Slíz, Panna Szabó, Tamás Farkas
chapter 18| The Circulation of Academic Knowledge in the Medium of School Programmes
Viktoria Gräbe, Michael Wermke
chapter 19| Circulating Knowledge through Intermediary Objects in Scientific Cooperative Networks
Dominique Vinck, Constanza Pérez-Martelo

Section IV | The Political Economy of Academic Knowledge Circulation

chapter 20| Knowledge Dependency and Circulation
Francesco Maniglio
chapter 21| Digital Object Identifier. Privatising Knowledge Governance through Infrastructuring
Angela Okune, Leslie Chan
chapter 22| Knowledge Machines. A Complex Web of History and Technology
Mark Bernstein
chapter 23| Free Circulation of Academic and Artistic Knowledge in the Context of Cognitive Capitalism
Lynda Avendaño Santana
chapter 24| Knowledge Circulation and Unequal Partnerships
Montserrat Alom Bartrolí, Xilin Huang, Rigas Arvanitis
chapter 25| The Changing Economics of Academic Publishing and the Discourse of “Predatory” Science
Thibaud Boncourt, David Mills
chapter 26| Knowledge Circulation and the Institutionalisation of Climate Science as a New Academic Field
Tomás Undurraga, Gonzalo Aguirre, Sasha Mudd
chapter 27| Crossing Disciplines and the Role of Knowledge Circulation for the Emergence of New Interdisciplinary Fields
Philippe Hamman, Christopher Schliephake, Jason Groves

Section V | The Geographies, Geopolitics and Historical Legacies of the Global Circulation of Academic Knowledge

chapter 28| Academic Knowledge, Translation and Geopolitics
Manuel Pavón-Belizón
chapter 29| The Construction of Academic Prestige and Its Role in Knowledge Circulation
Diogo L Pinheiro
chapter 30| Representation and the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge
Nil Uzun
chapter 31| Knowledge Circulation and the Gaze of Epistemic Others. Towards an African Epistemology
Théophile Ambadiang
chapter 32| Indigenisation. The Significance of the Debates for the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Junpeng Li, Songying Xu, Gang Zhou, Taiwen Yang, Zhiqiang Zhang

Section VI | The Relationships between Academic and Extra-Academic Knowledge

chapter 33| Science and Society
Approaches for the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia
Michael Weinhardt, Katharina Löhr
chapter 34| Newspapers and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Simone Jung
chapter 35| Consultancy Praxis. Dynamics of Circulation between Academia and State Knowledge
Natacha Bacolla, Jimena Caravaca
chapter 36| Experts and Social Movements in the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Christian Colella
chapter 37| Addressing Inclusion and Sustainability in the Circulation of Knowledge beyond Academia
Gabriela Bortz, Ayelén Gázquez

Section VII | Methodological Approaches to Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge

chapter 38| Ethnography and the Circulation of Knowledge 1
Marko Monteiro
chapter 39| Biographic Methods and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Daniele Cantini
chapter 40| Prosopography and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Constantin Brissaud
chapter 41| Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a Methodology for Researching Academic Knowledge Circulation
Manuel Bolz, Stefanie Mallon, Marcela Suárez Estrada
chapter 42| Field Theory and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
Laurent Afresne, Clara Ruvituso, Gernot Saalmann
chapter 43| Bibliometrics and the Study of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Julián D. Cortés, Katerina Bohle-Carbonell, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez
chapter 44| Using Digital Text-Based Approaches to Study Knowledge Circulation
Matías Milia
chapter 45| Studying Metaphors and the Understanding of Knowledge Circulation
Eszter Pál