De-westernizing hegemonic knowledge in global academic publishing: toward a politics of locality

Abstract

ABSTRACT Concomitant with the increased pressures on scholars around the globe to publish in top-tiered scholarly indexed English journals, the Indonesian government has imposed a stern policy obliging local scholars to publish in such journals. This policy has serious ramifications for the academic promotions, tenures, research grants and allowances of these scholars. Yet, as it is English that has become the privileged language for global academic publication, there is the tendency that it gives rise to linguistic hegemony in knowledge production and dissemination. Drawing upon in-depth interview results from two Indonesian professors who have ample experiences in writing and publication in the field of linguistics, this study seeks to discover strategies they employed to de-westernize hegemonic knowledge in global academic publishing. In so doing, the article further contributes to the debates over the politics of knowledge production and dissemination amid the intellectual hegemony of knowledge in academic publication.