Asymmetrical Epistemic Order(s) : State of Affairs, Contestations, Alternatives /

Asymmetrical Epistemic Order(s) : State of Affairs, Contestations, Alternatives /

Why does global knowledge still flow along unequal, often invisible hierarchies, and what happens when those on the margins speak back? This book invites you to examine how academic power is constructed, maintained, and contested across cultures, languages, and geopolitical spaces. You meet scholars...

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Other Authors: Mihaylov, Valentin (Editor), Dymitrow, Mirek (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 364.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Intellectual History.

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Call Number: LA227.3

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Epistemic Over-Concentration in a World of Growing Diversity - Can Equitable Dialogue(s) Counteract the Current State of Affairs?
  • Valentin Mihaylov and Mirek Dymitrow
  • Part 1
  • Hidden and Overt Forces of Epistemic Hegemony
  • 2 Universities, Impact and Epistemic Injustice: Unveiling the Hidden Geographies of Research Evaluation Systems
  • Rene Brauer and Mirek Dymitrow
  • 3 Public Good, Private Gain: How Parks and Academia Play the Same Game
  • Shelley Kotze
  • 4 A Prescription of Values: How Textbooks Impose Paternalistic Ideals
  • Nora Hagström
  • Part 2 Contesting and Re-evaluating Unjust Asymmetries in the Knowledge Order
  • 5 Justify Your Geographical Choice! Methodological Racism in the Social Sciences?
  • Tomáš Imrich Profant
  • 6 The Paradox of Self-peripheralization: How Marginalized Scholars Reproduce Academic Hegemony
  • Valentin Mihaylov and Mirek Dymitrow
  • 7 What Does It Mean to Be an Expert? An Intergenerational Perspective on Expertise and the Epistemic Quality of Polish Science
  • Elżbieta Grzelak-Kostulska
  • Part 3 Institutional Injustice Orders and Their Alternative Epistemologies
  • 8 The Modern Epistemic Order, the Earth, and the Planetary
  • Martin Gren
  • 9 Lost in the Jungle? 'Exorcism' and 'Exotism' in Academic Investigations on Marginalized Urbanities
  • Nazem Tahvilzadeh
  • 1 International Integration of African Markets: the New Paradigm for Unfairness and Stagnation
  • Hans Eyong
  • 11 Peer Review from Hell: on Epistemic Injustice, Institutional Power, and the Pitfalls of Transdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Mirek Dymitrow and Rene Brauer4
  • 12 Conclusion: from Epistemic Asymmetry to Epistemic Transformation - Lessons Learned - What Next?
  • Mirek Dymitrow and Valentin Mihaylov
  • Index.