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Motherhood as an Amplifier of Inequalities in International Legal Academia
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral and impersonal body. Yet the portraits of wo
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Care as Legal Knowledge
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating ambiguity. But beneath the formal processes and consensus language that we see in treaty texts, lies the rather chaotic
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🌍 New on Co-Producing Knowledge:
“Rethinking Collaboration in Social Anthropology” by Lamine Doumbia, Peter Narh & Drissa Tangara ✍️
From extractive to collaborative models—rethinking ethics & politics of #KnowledgeProduction in North–South relations & African studies.
👉 https://boasblogs.org/coproducingknowledge/rethinking-collaboration-in-social-anthropology/
Introduction The shift from extractive to collaborative models of knowledge production is about redefining the ethics and politics thereof, especially in North–South relations, interdisciplinary research, and policy engagement. This blog post aims to critically discuss academic co-production of knowledge and how it could be understood within the process of knowledge co-production in social anthropology and […]
📢 Publishing cultures in transition: #OpenAccess, critical #DigitalLiteracy & #DigitalInfrastructures call for papers
From Medien Pädagogik @medienpaed_com
Themes
- Critical Engagement w/ #ScholarlyPublishing Norms
- Democratization & Equity in #KnowledgeProduction
- Governance, Infrastructures, & Critical (Digital) Literacy
- The Politics & Sustainability of #OpenScholarship
- Infrastructures & Ecologies of Scholar-Led Publishing: #OJS & PKP in Practice
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/05/medien-padagogik-call-for-papers/
Can Science and Technology Studies (#STS) play a transformative role in advancing #EpistemicJustice?
We're thrilled to co-host with the
British Sociology Association's STS Study Group this rich discussion featuring speakers who will share insights from their experience in creating meaningful change in both #GlobalNorth and #GlobalSouth
🗓 Monday, 23 June 2025
🕑 14:00–15:30 BST (London Time)
📍 Zoom – Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sts-for-epistemic-justice-strategies-and-practices-tickets-1313749763909
📢 NEW BLOG POST | Prisoners of the (written and accessible) Past: Reflections on Bias in the Dutch East India Company Historian’s Craft
In this blog post, Manjusha Kuruppath examines the several forms of bias that a researcher encounters in the written archive.
Read it here! ➡️ https://combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/historicalbias/
"Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the ‘From Anywhere’ of Urban Theorising"
By F. Governa & C. Iacovone
"the #geography of the places studied contradicts any claims of post/decolonising urban theory, of ‘urban theorising from anywhere’, of Southern, #subaltern, alternative urban perspectives, and so on."
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.70017
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📢 NEW BLOG POST | 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗮𝘀: 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗢𝗖 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
When working with data, what's missing can be as important as what's recorded. Through a museum installation about the Dutch East India Company, Lodewijk Petram explores how datasets reflect institutional priorities and shape narratives.
Read it here! ➡️ https://combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/voc_bias/
#𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 #𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀 #𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 #𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 #𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
📢 NEW BLOG POST | 'I' am here! The necessity of acknowledging the historian in scholarship.
Kicking off our new series on positionality and bias! Through personal reflections, our team explores how acknowledging our own perspectives leads to stronger, more transparent scholarship.
Team member Amber has written the first blog, reflecting on her experiences (and challenges) with positionality.
Read it here! https://combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/positionality/
Why should we pay attention to trust in debates on #openaccess ?
Read our guest post by Willa Tavernier: 'Towards a Cartography of Trust in Knowledge Production'.
https://blog.doaj.org/2024/11/25/towards-a-cartography-of-trust-in-knowledge-production/
#KnowledgeProduction #TrustInResearch #InformationTrust #GuestPost #AcademicChatter
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