Values and the International Collaborative Research in Higher Education: Negotiating Epistemic Power Between the Global South and the Global North

Abstract

In this chapter, collaboration in the construction of knowledge in higher education between academics located in the North and in the South as part of internationalisation processes in universities is critically examined. By analysing patterns of publication of papers in journals in higher education in Latin America, attention is paid to the geopolitics of the production of knowledge. This chapter is focused especially on problematizing and deconstructing international collaboration. It also explores the weight of different cultural contexts, language issues, power relationships and values in shaping such collaboration. The chapter suggests that international academic collaboration and the construction of knowledge in the social sciences require spaces to think critically. The chapter ends by offering some ideas to promote new ways to re-shape international collaboration in the academia.