A Geopolitics of Academic Writing

Contents: Acknowledgements. The problem. The project. 1. Contextualizing academic writing. 2. Communities of knowledge construction. 3. Conventions in knowledge construction. 4. Textual conventions in conflict. 5. Publishing requirements and material constraints. 6. Literacy practices and academic culture. 7. Poverty and power in knowledge production. 8. Reform, resistance, reconstruction. Notes. Works cited. Index.

"A Geopolitics of Academic Writing critiques current scholarly publishing practices and principles, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. A. Suresh Canagarajah --a periphery scholar now working in (and writing from) the center--examines the broad western conventions governing academic writing and argues that their dominance leads to the marginalization or appropriation of the knowledge of third world communities."