The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

   • Johan Heilbron, Thibaud Boncourt, Gustavo Sorá

   Pages 1-25

3. Patterns of Transnationalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. The Globalization of European Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1980–2014): A Bibliometric Study

      • Johan Heilbron, Yves Gingras

      Pages 29-58

   3. What Factors Determine the International Circulation of Scholarly Books? The Example of Translations Between English and French in the Era of Globalization

      • Gisèle Sapiro

      Pages 59-93

   4. What “Internationalization” Means in the Social Sciences. A Comparison of the International Political Science and Sociology Associations

      • Thibaud Boncourt

      Pages 95-123

4. Transnational Regionalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Unity and Fragmentation in the Social Sciences in Latin America

      • Gustavo Sorá, Alejandro Blanco

      Pages 127-152

   3. The European Research Area in the Social and Human Sciences: Between National Closure and American Hegemony

      • Johan Heilbron, Thibaud Boncourt, Rob Timans

      Pages 153-181

5. South-North Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. The Post-colonial Internationality of Algerian Academics

      • Tristan Leperlier

      Pages 185-214

   3. The Internationalization of Sociology in Argentina 1985–2015: Geographies and Trends

      • Alejandro Blanco, Ariel Wilkis

      Pages 215-241

   4. The Ford Foundation and the Institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil

      • Leticia Canêdo

      Pages 243-266

   5. Translating Western Social and Human Sciences in Argentina: A Comparative Study of Translations from French, English, German, Italian and Portuguese

      • Gustavo Sorá, Alejandro Dujovne

      Pages 267-293

6. East-West Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295

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   2. A Case of State Controlled Westernization. Foreign Impacts in the Hungarian Social Sciences (1945–2015)

      • Victor Karady, Peter Tibor Nagy

      Pages 297-332

   3. Western References in Asian Social Sciences (Japan and South Korea)

      • Thomas Brisson, Laurent Jeanpierre, Kil-Ho Lee

      Pages 333-364

7. Back Matter

   Pages 365-371

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This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts.Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

• Social and Human Sciences
• globalization
• internationalization
• Transnationalization
• European Research
• Transnational Regionalization
• Postcolonial
• Institutionalization
• Westernization
• Sociology
• Sociology Associations
• histrorical sociology
• area studies

“This volume provides much needed detailed evidence on transformations in the global social sciences. While emphasizing power relations, it rejects facile notions of globalization or Western/Northern hegemony. Instead, it analyzes regional and global trends in empirical detail and shows the impact actions by authors, translators, publishers, foundations and states can have on the global intellectual constellation.” (Peter Wagner, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain)

“This excellent volume provides evidence for increasing global circulation of scholars and scientific while showing that these processes are far from straightforward. Theoretical perspectives and scientific concepts do not diffuse peacefully. Scientific peripheries are not simply the supine recipients of science from core countries. The global social sciences are marked by a mixture of diminished autonomy in some respects and increased heterogeneity in others; all of this is riven by pervasive power struggles.” (George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, USA)

• Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP), CNRS – EHESS – Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

  Johan Heilbron

• Department of Anthropology The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

  Gustavo Sorá

• Department of Political Science Centre Européen de Sociologie et Science Politique (CESSP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

  Thibaud Boncourt

Johan Heilbron is Director of Research at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS), France, and affiliated with the Erasmus Center for Economic Sociology (ECES), the Netherlands. 



Gustavo Sorá is Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, and a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.



Thibaud Boncourt is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP-CNRS), France.

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