Academic Dependency in the Social Sciences: Structural Reality and Intellectual Challenges

📦 Product Details

• Author: Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
• Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Publication Date: 1 January 2010
• Language: English
• Print Length: 334 pages
• ISBN-10: 8173048940
• ISBN-13: 978-8173048944
• Item Weight: 650 g

📖 About the Book

Academic Dependency in the Social Sciences: Structural Reality and Intellectual Challenges examines the structural conditions that influence the production, circulation, and recognition of knowledge in the social sciences.

The book explores the idea of academic dependency, focusing on how institutional structures, international academic networks, research practices, and unequal relationships between different regions can shape intellectual work. It considers the challenges faced by scholars and academic institutions operating within these unequal structures.

Through its examination of academic institutions and knowledge production, the book provides a basis for thinking about the relationship between scholarship, intellectual autonomy, global academic structures, and the social sciences.

It is particularly relevant for readers interested in sociology, social science research, higher education, intellectual history, and the global organization of academic knowledge.

✍️ About the Author

Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff is a scholar whose academic work has engaged with social sciences, development, society, and questions surrounding knowledge production and intellectual structures. Her research and writing examine social and institutional processes, particularly in relation to South Asian contexts.