Overlapping Scientific Communities: Internal Structuration and Knowledge Diffusion in International Relations (IR)

本项目探讨了国际关系（IR）领域中多个和重叠社区的社会结构化如何影响这些社区内和社区之间的知识传播。我们通过绘制和解释知识在社会科学的一个特定领域的第一次全球传播贡献科学社会学。我们还为国际关系中关于各种地理和实质性定义的社区如何相互关联以及与所谓的西方核心的自我反思辩论提供了急需的经验证据。该项目一方面从社会认同理论（SIT）出发，另一方面从传播方法出发。在与美国，巴西和日本的合作伙伴，我们将进行各种国家，区域以及实质性（理论，认识论，方法，问题领域）IR社区及其在知识的全球生产的作用的研究。该项目采用多方法设计，整合了来自国际关系学者的跨国调查，期刊内容和引文分析，以及CV分析和半结构化访谈的数据。来自全球南方的学术和数据的系统整合使我们能够超越西方的IR和来自Web of Science的数据，从而调查全球学术界的程度。

This project examines how the social structuration of multiple and overlapping communities in the field of International Relations (IR) affects the diffusion of knowledge within and among these communities. We contribute to the Sociology of Science by mapping and explaining the global diffusion of knowledge in a particular field of the social sciences for the first time. We also add much-needed empirical evidence to self-reflexive debates in International Relations on how the various geographically as well as substantively defined communities relate to each other and to the alleged Western core. The project takes its theoretical departures from Social Identity Theories (SIT), on the one hand, and diffusion approaches, on the other. In cooperation with American, Brazilian, and Japanese partners, we will conduct studies of various national, regional as well as substantive (theory, epistemology, methods, issue areas) IR communities and their role in the global production of knowledge. The project uses a multi-method design integrating data from multinational surveys of IR scholars, journal content and citation analyses, as well as from CV analyses and semi-structured interviews. The systematic incorporation of scholarship and data from the Global South allows us to go beyond Western-based IR and beyond data from the Web of Science and, thus, to investigate the extent to which there is indeed a global scholarly community.