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

本项目研究国际关系领域多个重叠社区的社会结构如何影响这些社区内部和社区之间的知识传播。我们通过首次绘制和解释社会科学特定领域知识的全球传播，为科学社会学做出了贡献。我们还在《国际关系》的自我反思辩论中增加了急需的经验证据，这些辩论涉及各种地理上和实质上定义的社区如何相互联系，以及如何与所谓的西方核心联系。该项目一方面从社会认同理论（SIT）出发，另一方面从扩散方法出发。在与美国、巴西和日本合作伙伴的合作下，我们将开展各种国家、地区以及实质性（理论、认识论、方法、问题领域）国际关系社区及其在全球知识生产中的作用的研究。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、CV分析和半结构化访谈的数据。系统地整合来自全球南方的学术和数据，使我们能够超越以西方为基础的IR和来自科学网络的数据，从而调查全球学术社区的真正程度。

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.