Disciplinarity and the political economy of transformation: the epistemological politics of globalization studies

Abstract

Most professional research continues to be funnelled through discipline-related organs. Similarly, most academic conferences have remained tribal conclaves on disciplinary lines. Most academic fund ing has continued to flow through disciplinary channels, and re spect of disciplinarity normally still provides researchers with a faster track to promotion than alternative approaches. In short, some mi nor inroads aside, disciplinary methodology remains quite firmly en trenched in the contemporary globalizing world. (Sch?lte, 2000:198)