Analyse des invitations de chercheurs étrangers par l’EHESS

• Main Author: Wiebke Keim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2010
• Subjects: Sociology of sciences; Social sciences; Scholarly exchange; North-South-relations; Unequal division of scientific labour; Disciplinary divide; Education; L; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a014be6319b145ed896d6c470bbdc7a9

This article presents an empirical analysis of the unequal international division of labour within the social sciences, noticeable in the forms of exchange and communication between researchers of Northern and Southern countries. After a brief review of current literature, empirical data concerning the practice of inviting foreign researchers to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris are analysed. The article shows in how far the areas of competency for which researchers are invited, limits those coming from the continents of the South to presenting, in their majority, local themes, while their colleagues affiliated to north-Atlantic institutions contribute more considerably to general theory-building.