Confronting Intellectual Extraversion: Reflexivity and Efforts of Ethnic Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars
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| Title: | Confronting Intellectual Extraversion: Reflexivity and Efforts of Ethnic Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Lili Yang (ORCID |
| Source: | Comparative Education Review. 2025 69(3):400-420. |
| Availability: | University of Chicago Press. Journals Division, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. Tel: 877-705-1878; Tel: 773-753-3347; Fax: 877-705-1879; Fax: 773-753-0811; e-mail: subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu; Web site: http://www.press.uchicago.edu |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 21 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Extraversion Introversion, Non Western Civilization, Writing for Publication, Asian Culture, Chinese, Knowledge Representation, Humanities |
| Geographic Terms: | China, Hong Kong |
| DOI: | 10.1086/736424 |
| ISSN: | 0010-4086 1545-701X |
| Abstract: | Worldwide, humanities and social sciences (HSS) scholars produce and disseminate knowledge in an unequal global knowledge space, which can be caused by various structural, epistemological, and individual-level factors. Although global epistemic injustice receives much attention, the factors contributing to it, including the extraverted mindsets and practices of non-Euro-American scholars, remain less discussed. This article draws on semibiographical interviews with 30 high-achieving ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in mainland China, in Hong Kong, and overseas. It explores how these scholars display intellectual extraversion and why and how they are reflexive about and confronting it. The findings reveal three manifestations of intellectual extraversion, four sources of reflexivity regarding such extraversion, and three ways to confront it. The research uncovers the continuous reflexivity and efforts of ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in dealing with lingering epistemic discontinuities and exclusions and sheds light on new possible approaches to challenging global epistemic injustice in HSS research. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1482472 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Worldwide, humanities and social sciences (HSS) scholars produce and disseminate knowledge in an unequal global knowledge space, which can be caused by various structural, epistemological, and individual-level factors. Although global epistemic injustice receives much attention, the factors contributing to it, including the extraverted mindsets and practices of non-Euro-American scholars, remain less discussed. This article draws on semibiographical interviews with 30 high-achieving ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in mainland China, in Hong Kong, and overseas. It explores how these scholars display intellectual extraversion and why and how they are reflexive about and confronting it. The findings reveal three manifestations of intellectual extraversion, four sources of reflexivity regarding such extraversion, and three ways to confront it. The research uncovers the continuous reflexivity and efforts of ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in dealing with lingering epistemic discontinuities and exclusions and sheds light on new possible approaches to challenging global epistemic injustice in HSS research. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-4086 1545-701X |
| DOI: | 10.1086/736424 |
