Sobre el acceso a la bibliografía académica desde el Sur: diagnóstico, estrategias de resistencia y un proyecto disruptivo concreto [Anuario de Glotopolítica]
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Daniela Lauria
Resumen
En un mundo con evidentes asimetrías, ¿cómo hacemos las investigadoras y los investigadores del Sur Global con el poco financiamiento con el que contamos para acceder a la bibliografía mainstream? ¿Con qué recursos producimos conocimiento? ¿Cómo difundimos nuestras producciones? ¿Hay otras opciones de publicación de “impacto”? A partir de una reflexión crítica sobre las políticas de escritura y lectura académicas en general, y sobre la sobreproducción de textos científicos en particular, reviso las estrategias a las que acudimos cuando queremos intervenir en la discusión a escala mundial. Luego, abogo por el aumento de prácticas editoriales de acceso abierto. En esa dirección, ubico al Anuario de Glotopolítica y expongo las decisiones de política editorial que adoptó como una apuesta de publicación alternativa, que busca contestar las lógicas dominantes de la indexación que caracterizan el sistema académico actual, controlado por ciertas dinámicas de evaluación, cierta uniformización discursiva y la hegemonía del inglés.
Abstract
In a world with evident asymmetries, what do researchers from the Global South do with the little funding we have to access mainstream literature? With what resources do we produce knowledge? How do we spread our productions? Are there other “impact” publication options? Based on a critical reflection on politics of academic writing and reading in general, and on the overproduction of scientific texts in particular, I review the strategies we resort to when we want to intervene in the discussion on a global scale. Then, I argue for the rise of open access publishing practices. In this direction, I locate the Anuario de Glotopolítica and expose the decisions of editorial potitics it adopted as an alternative publishing bet, which seeks to answer the dominant logics of indexing that characterize the current academic system, controlled by certain dynamics of evaluation, certain discursive standardization and the hegemony of English.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Reading: An anniversary conversation with journal editors
- Article
- Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel
- Commentaries
- Sobre el acceso a la bibliografía académica desde el Sur: diagnóstico, estrategias de resistencia y un proyecto disruptivo concreto [Anuario de Glotopolítica]
- Toward un-WEIRDing academic publishing about language [Applied Linguistics]
- Recognising the human in humanities [Australian Review of Applied Linguistics]
- 文字简化、学术产出与技术进化—来自中国的经验 [Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning]
- Meine kleine Lesemaschine: Reflexion zur Begrenzung der Produktion von wissenschaftlichen Texten [International Journal of Multilingualism]
- The politics of writing and reading: An Arabic sociolinguistics perspective [Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics]
- To read is to cite: A moral proposition [Journal of Linguistic Anthropology]
- Sociolinguistics towards a culturalist turn: a sociolinguistic response to the challenges of mankind [Journal of Multicultural Discourses]
- Wolfgang Klein as Don Quixote [Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development]
- An extended lunch break: a response to Wolfgang Klein [Journal of Pragmatics]
- The economic reterritorialization of academic publishing and the politics of reading [Journal of Sociolinguistics]
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the explosion of information [Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society]
- Writing and publishing language studies in the Arab region [Khitabaat Journal]
- Accouchons des idées, pas des articles: politiser la proposition de Wolfgang Klein pour repenser le travail scientifique [Langage et Société]
- Reading or writing is not the question: politicizing the politics of scholarly production and reception [Language, Culture and Society]
- Writing to be read, or how to achieve more through less [Language Matters]
- Writing or reading? An incommensurable choice? [Language in Society]
- Can we escape the textocalypse? Academic publishing as community building [Language on the Move]
- Acceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy]
- On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
- Where global discourses meet local realities: the case of scholarly publishing in Sinhala [Sāhityaya]
- Navigating a national linguistics journal through local interests and global pressures: an editorial view on the problem of academic overproduction [Slovo a slovesnost]
- What is the place of African languages in knowledge production? [South African Journal of African Languages]
- Publishing issues and overwhelm [Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies]
- Strengthening local academic publishing in the age of academic fast fashion [TILAMSIK]
- Dromm und die verlorene Balance [The Mouth: Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society]
- Meritocracy, governmental intervention, and academic nepotism: a South Korean academic publishing landscape [The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea]
- Indagando a aceleração da produção acadêmica com bom humor: Uma visão do sul [Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada]
- Final Commentary
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