Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities

This article is based on the engagement of a US-based scholar and faculty members in a non-Western university in a mentoring exercise on publishing. It demonstrates how the “list” constructed in a particular academic department in the university for ranking relevant journals for publication has repr...

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Main Author: Suresh Canagarajah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2014-05-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
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Online Access:https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1501
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spelling doaj-2b75f306731441a6bde1718bd4d9100d2020-11-25T03:51:31ZengArizona State UniversityEducation Policy Analysis Archives1068-23412014-05-0122010.14507/epaa.v22n28.20141209Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant PossibilitiesSuresh Canagarajah0Pennsylvania State UniversityThis article is based on the engagement of a US-based scholar and faculty members in a non-Western university in a mentoring exercise on publishing. It demonstrates how the “list” constructed in a particular academic department in the university for ranking relevant journals for publication has reproductive effects on knowledge construction. The ranking of journals shapes scholarly interactions both inside and outside the academic department, offering limited possibilities for developing local knowledge. A micro-level orientation to publishing is first adopted to bring out how rhetorical and textual choices are influenced by the list of ranked journals. Next, a broad lens perspective is adopted to explore how academic interactions and communication among local scholars are also shaped by such productivity targets to reproduce dominant knowledge. In the final section, the article reports on the way mentoring was reconfigured to identify strategic textual spaces for representing local knowledge within existing publishing conventions.https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1501scholarly communicationslocal knowledgerankings
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Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
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title Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
title_short Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
title_full Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
title_fullStr Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
title_full_unstemmed Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals: Reproductive Effects and Resistant Possibilities
title_sort local knowledge when ranking journals: reproductive effects and resistant possibilities
publisher Arizona State University
series Education Policy Analysis Archives
issn 1068-2341
publishDate 2014-05-01
description This article is based on the engagement of a US-based scholar and faculty members in a non-Western university in a mentoring exercise on publishing. It demonstrates how the “list” constructed in a particular academic department in the university for ranking relevant journals for publication has reproductive effects on knowledge construction. The ranking of journals shapes scholarly interactions both inside and outside the academic department, offering limited possibilities for developing local knowledge. A micro-level orientation to publishing is first adopted to bring out how rhetorical and textual choices are influenced by the list of ranked journals. Next, a broad lens perspective is adopted to explore how academic interactions and communication among local scholars are also shaped by such productivity targets to reproduce dominant knowledge. In the final section, the article reports on the way mentoring was reconfigured to identify strategic textual spaces for representing local knowledge within existing publishing conventions.
topic scholarly communications
local knowledge
rankings
url https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1501
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