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The Post-colonial Internationality of Algerian Academics

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Abstract

Algerian research in literature and sociology remains marginalized in the international scientific arena. Globalization has not allowed a move away from colonial dependency towards global equal opportunity. On the contrary, reliance on France and the French language has re-emerged as a way of gaining access to Europe and the English-speaking world. While “international” has become a buzz-world and a model in Algerian research, internationalization now takes place on a wider scale, but has lost in quality what it has gained in quantity. Nevertheless, the unequal structure of the international scientific space is not immutable. Activists’ desires to reduce international scientific inequalities have been productive in both Francophone and particularly Arabophone international spaces. Moreover, not all researchers view internationalization as a desideratum: while the discourse of de-Westernizing science seems to have diminished, some researchers, volens nolens, believe that the political role of their research within Algeria is more important than their international visibility.

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Notes

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    A different version of the same study is published in French (Leperlier 2018b in press).

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    36 on average 45-minute interviews, usually recorded and transcribed by ourselves or a third person: 22 who did research in literature (7 in French literature, 6 in Arab literature, 1 in Berber literature and 6 in English literature, 1 in German literature and 1 in Italian literature), and 14 in sociology (of whom 9 work for the most part in French and 5 for the most part in Arabic). The 13 interviews with writers who are academics at the same time lasted on average for two hours: 10 in Arab literature, 2 in sociology, and 1 in French literature.

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    Of 280 PHC Tassili projects financed since 2007, 29 were in the social and human sciences or in the humanities.

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Leperlier, T. (2018). The Post-colonial Internationality of Algerian Academics. In: Heilbron, J., Sorá, G., Boncourt, T. (eds) The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73299-2_7

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