Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

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.

Wiebke Keim is CNRS researcher at the SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe) research centre at Strasbourg University, France. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and science, the history of sociology, the epistemology of the social sciences, critiques of Eurocentrism, fascisms and post-fascisms. She is the author of Vermessene Disziplin: Zum konterhegemonialen Potential afrikanischer und lateinamerikanischer Soziologien (2008) and Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local: South African Labour Studies from the Apartheid Era into the New Millennium (2017), and co-author of Gauging and Engaging Deviance, 1600-2000 (2014), and of Scripting Defiance: Four Sociological Vignettes (2022).

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers at Mexico’s Council for Science and Technology and founding editor-in-chief of the Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology, and Society journal. His research interests include Science & Technology Studies (STS), science and technology policies in Latin America, the international circulation of knowledge within the social sciences, and the relationship between cities and culture. He is author of Material Hermeneutics in Political Science (2013); Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production (Routledge, 2014), and The Circulation of European Knowledge: Niklas Luhmann in the Hispanic Americas and co-editor of La Teoría del Actor-Red desde América Latina (2022).

Rigas Arvanitis, Ceped, Université Paris Cité-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France

Natacha Bacolla, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Chandni Basu, Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany

Stéphane Dufoix, Université Paris-Nanterre and senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, France

Stefan Klein, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Brasília (SOL/ICS), Brazil

Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia,

Barbara Riedel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany

Clara Ruvituso, Mecila/Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany

Gernot Saalmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany

Tobias Schlechtriemen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg, Germany

Hebe Vessuri, Independent researcher