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EXTENDING THE GLOBAL ACADEMIC TABLE: AN INTRODUCTION
Author(s) -
Hastings Thomas John
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12231
Subject(s) - china , politics , social science , natural science , round table , natural (archaeology) , sociology , political science , regional science , media studies , geography , epistemology , philosophy , law , session (web analytics) , archaeology , world wide web , computer science
Before commenting on the papers from a recent interdisciplinary gathering of scholars from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, a case is made for regional academia conversations today, because international conferences, especially in the humanities and social sciences, are still dominated by “Western” traditions, discourse, and protocols. After touching on the relative stability or variability of phenomena and procedures in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences, political and cultural questions are considered along with some of the ongoing consequences of the East Asian adoption of the European model of the modern research university.