Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise

ISBN-13: 9780367874308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 354 str.

Sari Hanafi; Rigas Arvanitis

Opis

Knowledge Production in the Arab World investigates research practices in the Arab world, using multiple case studies from the region with particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. It depicts the Janus-like face of Arab research, poised between the negative and the positive and faced with two potentially opposing strands; local relevance alongside

Spis treści

Introduction Part I. Arab Research Dynamics Chapter 1 . Decisive Impact of the national research and innovation systems Chapter 2 . Scientific publication: growth, impact and internationalization Chapter 3. Universities, Researchers and Diaspora Chapter 4 . practicing research in Lebanon: institutions and internationalisation Part II: The Tumultuous development of social science in the Arab region Chapter 5 Development and place of production of the social sciences: different forms of compartmentalization Chapter 6 Writing Sociology in the Arab World: the Case of Idafat Chapter 7 . Social Research and language: is there a marginalization of the Arab language? Chapter 8 . The politics of Citation: Who frames the debate on the Arab Uprisings? Chapter 9 . Public Social Science: the Case of writing op-eds in Lebanese Newspapers Chapter 10. Conclusion ANNEX: BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS FOR THE ARAB REGION

O autorze

Sari Hanafi is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is also the editor of Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology and the Vice President of the International Sociological Association and the Arab Council of Social Science.

Rigas Arvanitis is Sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), specializing in the sociology of science and innovation, and research policy. He is also Director of the French consortium on research, innovation and society (IFRIS).