Production of knowledge: Looking for ‘theory’ in ‘familiar’ places?

The Behavior of Citing: A Perspective on Science Communication Across Languages

“…These authors further observed that, in economics, different schools of thoughts, opposing paradigms, and even nationalities of journals can influence the citation of a publication. More recently, in feminist geography, Raju (2006) reported on instances of looking for "theory" in "familiar" faces in which non-Anglophone authors publishing in English feminist journals "have been pushed not only for more theory but for more references to particular theories or theorists currently popular in the Anglophone literature" (p. 156). In addition, there are epistemic discussions on citations and impacts of knowledge in Journal of China Tourism Research 335 pertinence to behaviors such as self-citations (i.e., an author citing his or her own works), negative citations (i.e., citing a source for the purpose of criticism or refutation), and incidences of sheer uncertainty in which a source not cited in one time period may well be cited in another and vice versa (Broadus, 1971;Price, 1965;Xiao & Smith, 2008).…”

Negotiating the academic periphery: Critical reflections on early career mobility

“…For the early career scholar, trained in a core tradition, such interactions may reinscribe academic difference and hostility while discouraging attempts to talk through these divergences. Defensive reactions against western theory, including a rejection of its relevance, risk entrenching the ‘universal’ nature of Anglo‐American work and locating the periphery as esoteric case study material (Robinson, ; Raju, ). Some might argue that this demonstrates the politics of affect (Mbembe, ; Thrift, ), but this would be a trite analysis overlooking the potential of alternative spaces of engagement to disrupt and decentre knowledge production.…”

Mainstreaming local health through herbal gardens in India: a tool to enhance women active agency and primary health care?

“…It is important to emphasize how the scheduled tribes are very often discriminated and marginalized in the rural areas, and that there is a strict division of economic tasks and of social life depending to the caste belonging (Bergh 2004;Burns et al 2001;Cornwall 2003;Raju 2006;Thomas and Mueller 2000;Krishna 2000).…”

“…Although they expressed their interest in knowing more about the traditional use of medicinal plants, more than one-third of interviewees belonging to the lower castes have emphasized their difficulties in cultivating medicinal plants due to this factor. The lack of land among the lower castes is a very widespread phenomenon in rural India (Raju 2006). This aspect not only hinders the socioeconomic development of scheduled castes by reducing the access to an important means of production as the land but also undermines certain development initiatives such as the one promoted by local NGOS such as FRLHT.…”