Dear colleagues
These last two examples of articles on cross-national
issues with hardly any non-Anglo references
are a bit disturbing. Are languages not a condition
for entry to social science degree courses?
Don't you have to demonstrate
competence in relevant languages before getting
a job on an international comparative
study? Surely people qualified
to conduct a relatively privileged type of work career
should be expected to demonstrate competence in
something so relevant to their work? Otherwise social
science becomes just a matter of who can perform the
most convincing chat, which is bound to give unfair
advantages to native speakers of dominant languages
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> Transactions IBG 23 151-175. Reshaping boundaries: international ethics
> and environmental consciousness in the early twentieth century.
>
> There are 171 references, at least 170 are from British or US journals,
> or published in Britain or the US. The only unusual feature is the large
> number of publications from Scotland, because of the subject (Geddes and
> followers). All are in English.
>
>
Mel Bartley
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, SSRU
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