[Linganth] CfP Special Issue : [Language, Culture and Society] --- Manufacturing (Academic) Knowledge

[Del Percio, Alfonso]

Language, Culture and Society (LCS) invites abstract submissions for its 2023 special issue “Manufacturing (Academic) Knowledge.” (Abstracts due: February 16, 2023)



CALL FOR PAPERS

Language, Culture and Society

Manufacturing (Academic) Knowledge





In line with its intellectual and political agenda developed over the past three years, Language, Culture and Society invites contributions to a special issue on Manufacturing Academic Knowledge. This Special Issue aims at expanding the reflection we launched on Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in issue 3(1), in which contributors reflected on the valuation and legitimation of knowledge and their producers, as well as on how the kind of knowing manufactured in the Academy cannot be disentangled from the sociopolitical context in and from which it is produced and from the positionalities of the knowers.

In this Special Issue, we go a step farther, seeking to open the black box of knowledge production and consumption. The scholarly knowledge as entextualized in journal articles is the outcome of a series of authorships and authorities from the initial writing of the paper, its submission to a given journal, its assessment by the journal editor(s), its several rounds of reviewing by external adjudicators, and the final input of the copy editor. Each of these steps is imbued in ideology and politics about what constitutes knowledge, how significant or original the submitted contribution to the academic field is, how relevant to the journal editorial line the paper is, how sound the data and the methodology adopted in the article are, how well informed and up to date the author is on the relevant subject matter, how competent the author is deemed  to be in mastering the hegemonic British or American written English varieties of international publications, etc. All these activities are taking place in a field where people compete for the monopoly of scientific authority and legitimacy as well as where those who ‘judge’ an article are also parties fighting to secure their position of power within the discipline. An assessment of the state of language-related disciplines (viz., sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistics anthropology) and the way they promote or silence certain social and political issues, theoretical frameworks or dismiss certain voices cannot be done without opening the pandora box of how we, as scholars, operate as producers, adjudicators, gatekeepers or consumers of knowledge. For this special issue, we invite papers that address tensions, conditions of possibility, and constraints in the production of academic knowledge, as well as the unveiling of the gatekeeping mechanisms at play at each stage of the knowledge production and circulation.

We are interested in contributions from scholars in diverse positions regarding academic seniority, geographic location, dominant language(s), and role such as editor, reviewer, copyeditor, author, or translator of academic publications.

Expected length of paper: not more than 4000 words

Please submit a 350-word abstract describing the issues you intend to cover in your paper to Cécile B. Vigouroux:  cvigouro at sfu.ca<mailto:cvigouro at sfu.ca>.



Timeline:

Abstract: February 16, 2023

Feedback on abstract: February 22, 2023

Paper due : September 1st, 2023


Dr Alfonso Del Percio
Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
Centre for Applied Linguistics
20 Bedford Way, Room 628a
London WC1H 0AL
Co-Editor: Language, Culture and Society
https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/lcs/main
Blog: https://disruptiveinequalities.com/
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