Oni , Aderonke (2017) Academic domains as political battlegrounds: A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology. Information Development, 33 (3). pp. 270-288.
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Abstract
This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and nonhuman components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Aderonke Oni |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2017 16:46 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2017 16:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/8708 |
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