Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean : Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cramer, Meta.

Series:

Decolonization and Social Worlds Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making.This book reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate these asymmetries in their daily work.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean: Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Negotiating Global Knowledge Production

1 Towards a Global Sociology of Social Sciences

Global sociologies: colonial legacies and global inequalities in social knowledge production

Organizing the production of knowledge: sociological perspectives on science

Conceptual outline: empirically exploring social knowledge production within global asymmetries

Social sciences in the Anglo-​Caribbean as a strategic case

Four generations of institutionalized Anglo-​Caribbean social sciences

Conclusion: Studying global inequalities and colonial legacies of knowledge production in the Anglo-​Caribbean

2 Becoming an Anglo-​Caribbean Social Scientist

Entering the university in a marginalized place: should I stay or should I go?

Starting, funding your research career and being mentored: the PhD

Developing a research focus: the Anglo-​Caribbean as a research context and object

Positioning Anglo-​Caribbean social sciences in the global sphere

Conclusion: Starting a scholarly career in the South

3 Juggling Daily Work: Publishing, Teaching and Administrative Duties

Publishing from and in the Anglo-​Caribbean: institutional expectations, audiences and funding

Publishing about the Anglo-​Caribbean: handling epistemic devaluation

Curriculum design: teaching in and about the Anglo-​Caribbean

Administrative work and funding infrastructure

Conclusion: The coloniality of academic time

4 Global Collective Knowledge Production: Conferencing and Collaboration.

Collaborating globally: jointly acquiring funding and co-​producing knowledge

Conferences as meeting places and testing spaces

The disruption of connectivity by the COVID-​19 pandemic

Conclusion: Building networks of trust

5 Negotiation Zones of Knowledge: Towards an Analytical Model

Social knowledge production as negotiation

Negotiating knowledge as creative action: insights from pragmatism

Zones of social knowledge production

Four negotiation zones of knowledge

Conclusion: Negotiating zones as a sensitizing concept

Afterword: Imagining and Doing Social Knowledge Production beyond Coloniality

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Afterword

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cramer, Meta Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean

ISBN:

9781529249637

OCLC:

1540955081