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Very excited that our article on the governing of science is now published in Minerva (OA)! @MartinReinhart and I reflect on the politics of research evaluation (i.a. metrics-based performance measurement) and argue for a global research approach accounting for transnational and discursive dynamics.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-026-09633-2
On my way to Helsinki to co-present a conceptual argument on research evaluation systems from a global perspective at #RESSH2025 with @MartinReinhart: we think about who steers science through evaluation, the role of transnationality and governmentality. Looking forward to the discussion, preprint available here: https://zenodo.org/records/14961710
This is the first argument we developed in the recently started collaborative project on global publishing cultures https://www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/research/publishing/publishing?set_language=en
The article presents a heuristic distinguishing research evaluation regimes along four axes of characteristics – the constellation of actors (1), procedures (2), functions (3), and programmes and values (4) – to better understand the governance of science through evaluation from a transnational perspective. We start by showing that existing literature can be characterised by a methodological nationalism, excluding regional or transnational constellations, secondly, focuses on operative and technical aspects of research evaluation systems, such as procedures, tools and indicators of metrics-based measurement, as well as its role for funding allocation, and lastly, does not systematically acknowledge the diverse constellations of evaluating and evaluated actors and non-centralised research evaluation regimes. Based on this, we argue to account for the diversity of evaluating and evaluated actors and their logics as well as normative and performative aspects of research evaluation regimes. Building on insights in the sociology of valuation, we critically reframe accounts of centralised research evaluation systems with one core evaluating body by describing the constellation of evaluating and funding actors as heterarchical. In addition, by drawing on Power’s seminal work on the ‘audit society’, we account for normative aspects of evaluation regimes in considering the role of political programmes and evaluative cultures as discussed in research on the relationship of science and society. The heuristic is presented as a starting point to conduct context-sensitive, comparative studies of research evaluation regimes from a transnational perspective to promote a more nuanced understanding of the power constellations of evaluation regimes and related ways of governing science.
und so beginnt es ..
Bei einem Pegel von 3 Metern über dem NAP (Normal-Pegel) in #Rotterdam, schließt die etwa 660 Millionen Euro teure Holland-Sperre automatisch.
Dies geschah nun erstmals.
In our RTG, we are incredibly excited about our upcoming workshop with @roopikarisam. It is an excellent opportunity for our PhD students to have a renowned scholar in the field of #DigitalHumanities and #DigitalColonialism here in Freiburg to work with them.
We will post updates on the event using #empiresofdata.
The workshop is planned and co-organised by Professor Risam (Dartmouth College) and @SchnDa (ALU Freiburg).
#DH #empires #empire @empires @unifreiburg @ManuelaBoatca @metacramer
Happy to share that my article on the interrelation of Caribbean intellectuals' work in London and the institutionalisation of research and higher education in the West Indies in the mid-20th century has been published (open access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/johs.12417
The article brings together the fascinating #intellectualhistory of #Caribbean social thought and the institutional history of colonial science policies and interprets the case as one of paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production.
In this piece, Guilherme Cavalcante Silva reflects on the use of the Global South as both a virtue and a laboratory in Global North institutions through his experience as a first-year PhD student in STS in North America.
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