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  • Academic Dependency and Professionalization in the South

    Perspectives from the Periphery

    Series Book 5 - Encuentros Collection
    Since 1960, an unequal international structure is recognized in terms of production and circulation of knowledge in the international science system. This phenomenon is called academic dependency and motivated actions towards promoting the education of scientist and stimulating the bond between institutions and scholars of the periphery. This, considering that the peripheral knowledge-production ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Tourism in the Americas

    Sustainable Tourism in the Americas introduces the reader to the establishment of sustainable tourism across the region. It examines questions such as 'what is really meant by sustainable tourism?' Covered in eight chapters, the book discusses the evolution and application of the concept in the Americas from its origins as well as documenting established success stories of sustainable tourism ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Sciences

    Series Book 1 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being constructed. Examining more closely the notions of ´human rights´ and ´individualization´, this much ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Spatial Social Thought: Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters

    Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    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 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Social Science of the Citizen Society

    Volume 1: Critique of the Globalization and Decolonization of the Social Sciences

    Series Book 8 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    The social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first critique of social science theorizing calls for ‘globalizing’, the second, parallel critique, for ‘de-colonizing’ social thought. In his highly topical book, Michael Kuhn discusses · why and how the ‘globalization’ of social science theorizing introduces thinking ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social

    Outline of a Critique

    Series Book 2 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal “turn” making it necessary to revolutionize their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalization of the social, they find the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is odd to discover after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises ... Read more

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  • How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social

    Outline of a Critique

    Series series
    At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal “turn” making it necessary to revolutionize their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalization of the social, they find the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is odd to discover after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge

    Series Book 4 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the ... Read more

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  • The Global Social Sciences

    —Under and Beyond European Universalism

    Series Book 3 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences ... Read more

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  • Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work

    A Case Study about the Social Science Academe in Japan

    Series Book 8 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice—except in regard to the social sciences and how they ... Read more

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  • Concurrences in Postcolonial Research

    Perspectives, Methodologies, and Engagements

    Series Book 6 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant Western narrations about colonial power relationships are challenged by alternative sources such as ... Read more

    $29.99 USD