{"product_id":"a-geopolitics-of-academic-writing-9788125031116","title":"A Geopolitics of Academic Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): A.Suresh Canagarajah\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Geopolitics of Academic Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 of appropriation of the knowledge of Third World communities. “This is bold and intellectually honest attempt to deal with the ethnography of writing focusing on the post-Foucauldian problem of power-knowledge as it applies to the unequal relationship between centers of academic power located in the United States and Europe and various peripheries located mostly in the Third World.” \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eGananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University “Canagarajah deepens and sharpens our understanding of the luxury of ordinary research, writing, and publishing practices even as he guides us through a thicket of extraordinary postcolonial barriers to the democratization of academic scholarship and publication.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003e Linda Brodkey, University of California, San Diego “Will stand as a landmark for decades to come” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eLester Faigley, University of Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616464560279,"sku":"9788125031116","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788125031116.webp?v=1769294860","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-geopolitics-of-academic-writing-9788125031116","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}