The Neo-Colonial Political Economy of Scholarly Publishing: Its UK-US Origins, Maxwell’s Role, and Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
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| dc.article.end-page | 9 | en_ZA |
| dc.article.start-page | 1 | en_ZA |
| dc.citation.doi | https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/31367 | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Gray, Eve | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-31T21:19:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-05-31T21:19:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The prevailing dynamics of today’s global scholarly publishing ecosystem were largely established by UK and US publishing interests in the years immediately after the Second World War. With a central role played by publisher Robert Maxwell, the two nations that emerged victorious from the war were able to dilute the power of German-language academic publishing—dominant before the war—and bring English-language scholarship, and in particular English-language journals, to the fore. Driven by intertwined nationalist, commercial, and technological ambitions, English-language academic journals and impact metrics gained preeminence through narratives grounded in ideas of “global” reach and values of “excellence”—while “local” scholarly publishing in sub-Saharan Africa, as in much of the developing world, was marginalised. These dynamics established in the post-war era still largely hold true today, and need to be dismantled in the interests of more equitable global scholarship and socio-economic development. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | CA2021 | en_ZA |
| dc.faculty | Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gray, E. (2021). The neo-colonial political economy of scholarly publishing: Its UK-US origins, Maxwell’s role, and implications for sub-Saharan Africa. The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), 27, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/31367 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2077-7213 (online version) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2077-7205 (print version) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/31367 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/31367 | |
| dc.journal.issue | 27 | en_ZA |
| dc.journal.link | http://www.wits.ac.za/linkcentre/ajic | en_ZA |
| dc.journal.title | The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.orcid.id | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-0143 | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg | en_ZA |
| dc.school | School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | scholarly publishing, academic journals, global science, universities, colonialism, decolonisation, impact metrics, distribution rights, copyright, fair use, fair dealing, Robert Maxwell, UK, US, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Neo-Colonial Political Economy of Scholarly Publishing: Its UK-US Origins, Maxwell’s Role, and Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |