Rich scholar, poor scholar: inequalities in research capacity, "knowledge" abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research.
The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, i...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 81; no. 5; pp. 469 - 489 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177797610&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177797610 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09254994 CRG jtl: Crime, Law & Social Change issn: 09254994 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2024 vid: 81 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 177797610 10.1007/s10611-023-10105-x ppf: 469 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 876KB tig: atl: Rich scholar, poor scholar: inequalities in research capacity, "knowledge" abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research. aug: au: Goyes, David Rodriguez Skilbrei, May-Len affil: Antonio Narino University, Bogotá, Colombia https://ror.org/01xtthb56 Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway su: Colombia Russia UNESCO Intellectual capital Labor supply Scholars Monopolies Capital allocation Liquidating dividends sug: subj: Intellectual capital Labor supply Scholars Monopolies Colombia Russia UNESCO Temporary Help Services Capital allocation Liquidating dividends keyword: Core–periphery Democratization of knowledge Inequality Research capacity Research methods Core–periphery Democratization of knowledge Inequality Research capacity Research methods ab: The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, intellectual capital allocation is increasingly associated with high economic, labor force and institutional power. This phenomenon has consequences at the global level. As the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has documented, there are significant disparities between countries in research capacities, with a marked difference between "core" countries with semi-monopolies over sanctioned knowledge production and "peripheral" states primarily used as data mines. The core–periphery divide in research capacity brings about what decolonial theorists call knowledge abysses: the widespread idea that core countries are the ultimate knowledge producers and thus the legitimate guides in humanity's road to "progress." In that context, the democratization of knowledge and the prevention of neo-colonial dynamics require the development of cheaper and more accessible ways of collecting representative data. In this article, we make a call for innovations in methods that can serve to overcome this, and we illustrate possible avenues for achieving sound research without incurring high financial costs by describing and discussing our experiences in researching narco-violence in Colombia and prostitution in Russia with what we call the "taxi method." pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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