Demands on publicly funded scientific research to yield academic and societal impact have
been commonplace for some time. Research communities, university administrators, and …

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the
differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social …

International conferences are an important component of the professional calendar of
scientists and practitioners in many fields, and are valued as opportunities to establish …

Circulation is not a new phenomenon–especially in the domain of science and knowledge.
One would be hard pressed to think of a static and closed moment of knowledge production …

How do academics become professors? This paper considers the making of 'professor'as a
subject position through which academics are acknowledged in both organizational contexts …

Conferences are funny events. They are self-evident elements of our lives as academics:
meetings that occur, often annually; take place in various locations; and involve (hopefully) …

With their foundations in Ancient Greek symposia, progression to eighteenth-century French
salons and coffeehouses, up to modern incarnations of large-scale international meetings …

The premise of this book is that research into gossip, organization, and work is an important
idea whose time has come. A key feature of the book is the inclusion of 'practice points' …

Drawing on an original data set of over 15,000 in-text citations, we use quantitative and
qualitative techniques to analyze 37 award-winning publications in historical sociology …

Blockchain is employed as a technology holding a solutionist promise, while at the same
time, it is hard for the promissory blockchain applications to become realized. Not only is the …