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Academic journals have become the focal point in recent years of calls to ‘decolonise’ the academy and ‘decentre’ knowledge production. These calls are predicated upon redressing historic inequities in journal publishing, conceived along gendered, generational, racial, geographical, and class divides, among others. This SSD EDI Researchers Network Event offers an opportunity to share and learn from experiences of reforms in academic journal publishing.
Among the topics under discussion:
1. What are the challenges and risks involved in journal reform?
2. What is the experience of minoritised authors in academic journal publications? How can these experiences be meaningfully integrated into reforming journal submission, review and publishing processes?
3. How can the relative ‘success’ of addressing inequities in journal publishing be measured?
4. What can we learn from the successes and failures of attempts to decolonise/decentre academic journals?
5. What are the future prospects for decolonising and/or decentring academic journals?
The event is convened by Professor Nandini Gooptu, Associate Head of the Social Sciences Division for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Professor Rebekah Lee, Associate Professor in African Studies.
