Introduction. The social and human sciences in global power relations

HEILBRON, JOHAN; BONCOURT, THIBAUD; SORÁ, GUSTAVO

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

Palgrave-MacMillian

Lugar: Basingstoke; Año: 2018; p. 1 - 25

If the social and human sciences have studied various forms of globalization extensively, few of these inquiries have concerned the globalization of the social and human sciences themselves. Science being considered to be, in contrast to other activities, international by nature, the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas has only recently become the object of systematic study (Atalas and Sinha-Kerkhoff 2010, Beigel 2013, 2014, Connell 2007, Danell et al. 2013, Fleck 2011, Fourcade 2006, Jeanpierre 2010, Keim 2011, Keim et al. 2014, Kennedy 2015, Krause 2016, Kuhn and Weideman 2010, Medina 2014, Dubois et al. 2016). Regularly, however, considerations about globalization, including globalization of the social and human sciences, focus on the discussion of theoretical models rather than the analysis of empirical data (e.g. Sorá 2017). Breaking away from these tendencies, this book intends first and foremost to contribute to the systematic empirical analysis of the globalizing social and human sciences.