Towards a New Research Era: A Global Comparison of Research Distortions

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Title Page
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: From Research Distortions to a New Research Era in Global Interactions
	Acknowledgement
	References
Part 1 Theoretical and Practical Foundations: Public Research and Its Distortions
	Chapter 1 The Imperative of Creativity
		1 Introduction
		2 The Storm of Change
		3 Knowledge Society or Academic Capitalism?
		4 Instrumentalization of Academia and Consequences for Academics and Their Work
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2 Research Change within Social Change
		1 From Internal and External Critique to Trichotomic Methodology
		2 Institutional Preconditions of Research
		3 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3 Values and Evaluation: Co-evolution of Science and Society
		1 The Evolution of Science Policy
		2 New Public Management
		3 The Science–Society Interface: New Issues and Challenges
		References
	Chapter 4 Research in Neoliberal Transformation
		1 Introduction
		2 The Key to Understanding Social Change: Global Context of Transnational Capitalism, Knowledge and Risk
		3 Research of Dynamic Societal Complexity Can Show How Social and Environmental Consequences Follow Crisis Transformations
		4 Generalised Precarisation
		5 Environmental Challenges and Their Translations
		References
	Chapter 5 Freedom (Not Only) in Research and the Academic Context
		1 Introduction
		2 Historical Development of Academic Freedom
		3 Various Aspects of Academic Freedom
		4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6 The Problems of Research in the Project Era
		1 Intellectual Freedom and Academic Freedom
		2 What Comes after the Project Era?
		3 Wisdom and the Fight for Acknowledgement
		4 Neoliberalism – a Type of Political Rationality
		5 An Attack on Words
		6 Salvation Comes with Committees: Ominous Perspectives
		Acknowledgement
		References
Part 2 Research and Education in Central Europe and in the West
	Chapter 7 Risks and Opportunities of the Politics of Performance and Evaluation in Academic Culture
		1 Unintended Consequences of the Culture of Surveillance
		2 The Risks of Imitating Intellectual Work
		References
	Chapter 8 Politics, Higher and Adult Education, and the Power of Research
		1 Introduction
		2 Neoliberal Education Policy and Other Public Policies
		3 Contradictory Forms of the Research–Education Policy Relationship
		4 Normative Proposals of Critical Education Research with Respect to Education Policy
		5 Instead of a Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9 World Research Produced Here and Now: the Czech Case Study
		References
	Chapter 10 The Relevance of Humanities in Masaryk’s System of Sciences
		1 Introduction: Masaryk’s Programme of Humanity and Democracy
		2 The Place of Humanities in Masaryk’s System of Sciences
		3 Masaryk’s Lectures in Practical Philosophy
		4 The Influence of Positivist Philosophy
		5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		References
Part 3 Research and Education in the Non-Western World
	Chapter 11 Social Sciences in Interactions with Latin American Reality
		1 Introduction
		2 Current Forms of Academic Activity in Latin America
		3 Historical and Philosophical Specificities of the Social Sciences in Latin America
		4 Visions, Alternatives and Prospects
		5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 12 The Marginalization of African Epistemologies
		1 Introduction
		2 Exploring the Knowledge Production Background
			2.1 The Predominance of the Western Knowledge’s Production Paradigm
			2.2 The Colonial Library’s Vestiges
		3 The African Reluctance
			3.1 The African Resistance or Irrational Behaviour?
			3.2 We Are Not Your Guinea Pigs
		4 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 13 Neoliberalised Research in Contemporary Russia
		1 Putin’s Russia and Its Modernising Dilemmas
		2 Project 5–100
		3 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 14 Neoliberal Distortions of Higher Education and Research in India
		1 Introduction
		2 The Problem
		3 Global Education Market
		4 World Trade Organization and Education
		5 The Indian Scenario
		6 India and the GATS
		7 The Mirage of FDI and Privatisation
		8 New Education Policy 2020
		9 Conclusion
		Appendix
			Key Supreme Court Judgments on Fees in Private Institutions
		References
	Chapter 15 The New Research Assessment Reform in China and Its Implementation
		1 Introduction
		2 The Background for the New Policy
		3 Farewell to “SCI Worship”
		4 From Metrics to Peer Review
		5 Local Relevance
		6 Conclusion
		References
Index
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