Provides a comprehensive analysis of the globalization of social and human sciences
Documents the diversity in the internationalization of social and human sciences,
Demonstrates that internationalization this does not necessarily imply a transnational convergence of knowledge

Analyzes the circulation of ideas and scholars between the North and the South and between the North and the East

Autorentext
Johan Heilbron is Director of Research at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS), France, and affiliated with the Erasmus Center for Economic Sociology (ECES), the Netherlands.

Gustavo Sorá is Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, and a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.

Thibaud Boncourt is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP-CNRS), France.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations; Johan Heilbron, Thibaud Boncourt, Gustavo Sorá.- Part I. Patterns of Transnationalization.- 1: The Globalization of European Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1980-2014): A Bibliometric Study; Johan Heilbron, Yves Gingras.- 2: What Factors Determine the International Circulation of Scholarly Books? The Example of Translations between English and French in the Era of Globalization; Gisèle Sapiro.- 3: What Internationalization Means in the Social Sciences. A Comparison of the International Political Science and Sociology Associations; Thibaud Boncourt.- Part II. Transnational Regionalization.- 4: Unity and Fragmentation in the Social and Human Sciences in Latin America; Gustavo Sorá, Alejandro Blanco.- 5: The European Research Area in the Social and Human Sciences: Between National Closure and American Hegemony; Johan Heilbron, Thibaud Boncourt, Rob Timans.- Part III. South-North Relations.- 6: The Postcolonial Internationality of Algerian Academics; Tristan Leperlier.- 7: The Internationalization of Sociology in Argentina, 1985-2015: Geographies and Trends; Alejandro Blanco, Ariel Wilkis.- 8: The Ford Foundation and the Institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil; Leticia Canêdo.- 9: Translating Western Social and Human Science in Argentina. A Comparative Study of Translations from French, English, German, Italian and Portuguese; Gustavo Sorá, Alejandro Dujovne.- Part IV. East-West Relations.- 10:A Case of State Controlled Westernization. Foreign Impacts in the Hungarian Social Sciences (1945-2015); Victor Karady, Peter Tibor Nagy.- 11: Western References in Asian Social Sciences (Japan and South Korea); Thomas Brisson, Laurent Jeanpierre, Kil-ho Lee.