Ebook: Academic writing in a global context: the politics and practices of publishing in English

English and the politics of academic knowledge production -- Writing for publication in a globalized world : interests, regulations, and rewards -- Mobilizing resources for text production : academic research networks -- Texts and literacy brokers -- Staying 'local', going 'global', working at enlightenment science -- Boundaries and stratification in the global academic dystopia -- De-centering academic centering academic text production and evaluation practices.;Academic Writing in a Global Context addresses the issue of the pressure on academics worldwide to produce their work in English in scholarly publishing, and why the growth of the use of academic English matters. Drawing on an eight year 'text-ethnographic' study of the experiences of fifty scholars working in Europe, this book discusses these questions at both a macro and micro level - through discussions of knowledge evaluation systems on all levels, and analysis of the progress of a text towards publication. In addition to this, case studies of individual scholars.