GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs. Science, Politics, and International Conferences

GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs. Science, Politics, and International Conferences
Author: Richard L. Merritt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781685851408

While there are many widely held assumptions about the impact of international scientific congresses (ISCs) on individual scientists, collective bodies, a particular branch of science, or even the establishment of world order, these assumptions have not previously been fully examined or tested empirically. Merritt and Hanson present here the results of their systematic investigation of the uses and consequences of ISCs. Deriving their data from a survey of political scientists from the nonsocialist countries who attended the XIth World Congress of IPSA in Moscow, as well as a control group of North American political scientists who did not attend the Moscow meetings, they provide a solid basis for evaluating the costs vs. the benefits of future scientific congresses.

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Author: Wiebke Keim
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 870
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100089732X

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 circulation requires a series of ontological and epistemic commitments that impact its conceptualisation and methodologies. Bringing diverse viewpoints from across the globe and from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), this wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection offers a broad and cutting-edge overview of outstanding research on academic knowledge circulation. The book is structured in seven sections: (i) key concepts in studying the circulation of academic knowledge; (ii) spaces and actors of circulation; (iii) academic media and knowledge circulation; (iv) the political economy of academic knowledge circulation; (v) the geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge; (vi) the relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledges; and (vii) methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge. This handbook will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in the circulation of knowledge.