Social studies of academia: power and knowledge in research, science and higher education
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Academic research and teaching face new challenges. While specialized knowledge plays an important role in, and for, society, there is a growing demand for systematic, critical and reflexive research on social practices of academic knowledge production and dissemination. Vibrant research in social studies of science has made academic knowledge production an object of empirical analysis. And higher education research has traced the systemic, institutional and organizational underpinnings of academic knowledge production. The nexus of power and knowledge is both a core issue of the social sciences and a highly promising topic at the intersection of Social Studies of Science and Higher Education Studies.
Against this backdrop, the objectives of this research Collection are twofold: first, to respond to a need for a new niche of integrative research at the intersection of Social Studies of Science and Higher Education Studies. Overcoming the divide between the two fields, research can make a difference in the broader debate about academia by responding to the challenges that research and higher education are facing today. Understanding the nexus of power and knowledge is key to understanding these new challenges.
The research Collection on Social Studies of Academia welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions. Possible topics for articles to focus on are changing conditions of knowledge production, the shaping of academic practices by fields of power or the impact of academic knowledge on society.We are interested in both the look from above on societal structures and from below on situated practices. A particular area of interest is academic identities and subjectivities of early career academics and the way they are negotiated in various arenas of the academic world.
Research on other issues pertaining to the thematic scope of the Collection is most welcome.
Editors
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Johannes Angermuller
The Open University, UK
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Sixian Hah
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Julian Hamann
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
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Eduardo Chávez Herrera
San Sebastián, Spain
