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Besnier, Niko

doi:10.1111/amet.12834

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Moreover, the actual shape of the English language that appears in academic publications can gradually shift to include unconventional forms for enhanced diversity and empowered authorial agency (Canagarajah, 2022), and Open Access publishing developments can have a positive effect in lowering the burden of journal subscription paywalls (Willinsky, 2006). However, changes in the actual system of academic publishing for a more radical inclusivity of less represented voices are hard to implement, certainly by single journal editors alone (Besnier, 2019;Piller, 2022), and empirical evidence continues to show that the pluralisation of English for academic publishing might be constrained by authors' general orientations to "standard" forms of academic English across different fields (Heng Hartse & Kubota, 2014;Hynninen & Kuteeva, 2017). So, concerted efforts by entire editorial teams, scholarly associations, and higher education institutions are what seems to be needed to foster justice in knowledge production and dissemination in academia, rather than ad hoc individual actions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Im)possible change

Soler,

Erdocia,

Savski

2023

LCS

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This article examines three sets of infrastructures that give shape to the academic knowledge economy, namely: institutional infrastructures (universities and conferences); gate-keeping infrastructures (journals and publishers); and validation infrastructures (competitive assessments of individuals and institutions). We analyse the tensed interplay between critical perspectives in applied linguistics and the influence of academic neoliberalism. We develop our argument in three parts: (1) Academic critique and its emancipatory epistemologies are intertwined with established systems and coexist with mechanisms that perpetuate inequalities. (2) Inequalities in knowledge production reverberate in knowledge dissemination, where the hegemonic role of English as the language of academic publishing reinforces the unequal position of different actors in their academic fields. (3) These inequalities (that originate in institutional and gate-keeping infrastructures) extend to the validation of knowledge, which is entrenched in the audit culture that pervades academia and further reinforces neoliberal competitive dynamics. We conclude by reflecting on the possibilities for change at these three levels.

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confidence: 99%

(Im)possible change

Soler,

Erdocia,

Savski

2023

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“…Improving welfare often involves working directly with governments and corporations. So engaged can mean directed at current political events (e.g., Besnier, 2019; Bonilla & Rosa, 2015; Eriksen, 2020; Gusterson, 2017; Holmes & Castañeda, 2016), but it should also mean collaboration with nonanthropologists in welfare projects. Fortunately, medical anthropology, led by figures such as Kleinman (1985), and evident in, for example, the Ebola Response Anthropology Forum (https://www.heart-resources.org/ebola-response-anthropology-platform/), has made considerable strides in growing our respect for such practical engagement.…”

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confidence: 99%

The maturing of anthropology

Miller

2023

American Ethnologist

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As anthropology reaches maturity, its contributions are likely to grow. This is because the discipline's practitioners, in writing parochial ethnography, can link a respect for individual difference to our understanding of global humanity. Such a practice aligns with the growing political struggle to retain meaning in an expanding world. Moreover, anthropology's commitment to life as lived research, including private domains and engagement with digital worlds, will also become more significant, while anthropology's ethos of empathy will expand beyond the human. Reaching maturity will require a further repudiation of inequality and colonialism, developing a different relationship to theory, philosophy, and engaged anthropology, as well as fostering a much wider commitment to global education.

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“…Along the lines of parallel language policy recommendations, publishing English-language articles accompanied by abstracts in languages other than English has proven to be more successful, even though working with non-Latin scripts can pose extra work during the production process (Besnier, 2019;Canagarajah, 2022). This is now common practice in Journal of Sociolinguistics, and this journal has adopted a similar policy as an option.…”

Section: Tensions Between English and Multilingualism In Research Pub...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge flows and languages of publication

Kuteeva

2023

JERPP

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Ongoing debates in the humanities and social sciences concern different ways in which knowledge is viewed and constructed. As the main language of academic publication, English features prominently in these debates. In this Perspectives piece, I discuss how knowledge flows and language uses are intertwined, and how English serves both as a bridge and a fence in the context of international knowledge exchanges. In particular, the tensions around English and multilingualism, as well as variability within English, are discussed in connection with language policies, editorial practices, and structural inequalities. I conclude by considering the role of institutional structures vis-à-vis individual authors, peer reviewers, and editors, and offer a few suggestions on how to address the limitations of centripetal English-medium publishing.

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Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

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The maturing of anthropology

Knowledge flows and languages of publication

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