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Embedded Colonial Power: How Global Ranking Systems Set Parameters for the Recognition of Knowers, Knowledge, and the Production of Knowledge

Embedded Colonial Power: How Global Ranking Systems Set Parameters for the Recognition of Knowers, Knowledge, and the Production of Knowledge
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Author(s): Leslie D. Gonzales (Michigan State University, USA)and Chelsea Waugaman (Clemson University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 26
Source title: World University Rankings and the Future of Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Downing (City University of Hong Kong, China)and Fraide A. Ganotice, Jr. (The University of Hong Kong, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0819-9.ch016

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Abstract

In this chapter, we carry forward the work of Gonzales and Núñez by analyzing one specific component of the ranking regime—global ranking systems—to consider how they impact the recognition of knowledge, knowers, and the production of knowledge within academia—issues and activities that are at the heart of faculty work. Using insights from Critical Policy Analysis and Anti-colonial theory, we find that global ranking systems create limits concerning the recognition of knowledge and knowers by: 1) a reliance on Western modes of legitimization; 2) rewarding those that achieve celebrity, massive reach on the basis of numerically calculated impact; and 3) equating knowers to resource generators and knowledge as something that is fundable. Implications for practice and future research are offered.

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