The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations
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This volume employs new empirical data to examine the
internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While
the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world
over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of
scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the
globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against
the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’,
this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and
scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process.
Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent
exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and
East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they
offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the
Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and
human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from
leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the
research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from
across the social sciences.
Johan Heilbron is Director of Research at the Centre Européen de
Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS),
France, and affiliated with the Erasmus Center for Economic Sociology
(ECES), the Netherlands.
Gustavo Sorá is Professor of
Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, and a Researcher at
the National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), Argentina.
Thibaud Boncourt is Associate Professor of
Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a
researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique
(CESSP-CNRS), France.
