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Academic domains as political battlegrounds

2016; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0266666916646415

1741-6469

Abdulrahman Essa Al Lily, Jed Rivera Foland, David L. Stoloff, Aytaç Göğüş, Inan Deniz Erguvan, Mapotse Tomé Awshar, Jo Tondeur, Michael Hammond, Isabella M. Venter, Paul Jerry, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Aderonke A Oni, Yuliang Liu, Radim Badošek, María Cristina López de la Madrid, Elvis Mazzoni, Hwansoo Lee, Khamsum Kinley, Marco Kalz, Uyanga Sambuu, Tatiana Bushnaq, Niels Pinkwart, Nafisat Afolake Adedokun-Shittu, Pär‐Ola Zander, Kevin Oliver, Lúcia Pombo, Jale Balaban Salı, Sue Gregory, Sonam Tobgay, Mike Joy, Jan Elen, Mustafa Jwaifell, Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad Said, Yeslam Al‐Saggaf, Antoanela Naaji, Julie White, Kathy Jordan, Jackie Gerstein, İbrahim Umit Yapici, Camilius Sanga, Paul Nleya, Boubker Sbihi, Margarida Lucas, Victor Mbarika, Torsten Reiners, Sandra Schön, Laura Sujo-Montes, Mohammad Issack Santally, Päivi Häkkinen, Abdulkarim A. Al Saif, Andreas Gegenfurtner, Steven Schatz, Virginia Padilla Vigil, Catherine L. Tannahill, Siria Padilla Partida, Zuochen Zhang, Kyriacos Charalambous, António Moreira, Mayela Coto, Kumar Laxman, Helen Farley, Mishack T. Gumbo, Ali Şimşek, E. Ramganesh, Rita Birziņa, Catarina Player-Koro, Roza Dumbraveanu, Mmankoko Ziphorah, NAWAZ MOHAMUDALLY, Sarah Thomas, Margarida Roméro, Mungamuru Nirmala, Lauren Cıfuentes, Raja Zuhair Khaled Osaily, Ajayi C Omoogun, Süleyman Sadi Seferoğlu, Alev Elçi, Dave L. Edyburn, Kannan M. Moudgalya, Martin Ebner, Rosa Maria Bottino, Elaine Khoo, Luís Pedro, Hanadi Buarki, Clara Román-Odio, Ijaz A. Qureshi, Mahbub Ahsan Khan, C. W. Thornthwaite, Sulushash Kerimkulova, Toni Downes, Lauri Malmi, Salih Bardakçı, Jamil Itmazi, Jim Rogers, Soonil D.D.V. Rughooputh, Mohammed Ali Akour, J. Bryan Henderson, Sara de Freitas, P. G. Schrader,

Educational Strategies and Epistemologies

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044.