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| List of illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| English and the politics of academic knowledge production | |
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| Why academic writing 'in a global context'? | |
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| The politics of location in academic text production | |
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| The global position of English in journal publications | |
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| A social practice approach to academic text production in a global context | |
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| How this book is organized | |
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| Ethics and anonymity | |
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| Note to the reader | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Writing for publication in a globalized world: interests, regulations and rewards | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Writing for different communities | |
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| The communities that multilingual scholars are writing for | |
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| Situated systems of regulations and rewards | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Mobilizing resources for text production: academic research networks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'Competence' as individual expertise or networks of activity? | |
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| Multilingual scholars' networks | |
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| Characterizing local-transnational network activity in academic text production | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Texts and literacy brokers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'Polishing the text': literacy brokering in academic text production | |
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| Types of literacy brokers in academic text production | |
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| The impact of language brokers on texts | |
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| The impact of academic brokers on texts | |
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| Academic literacy brokers and the construction of knowledge in English-medium 'international' journals | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Staying 'local', going 'global'?: working at Enlightenment Science | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The importance of the 'local' in scholars' writing lives | |
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| Everything in its place in the global academic utopia | |
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| Working toward equivalence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Boundaries and stratification in the global academic dystopia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Science as local: 'global' is a place called the 'US' | |
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| Crossing boundaries (or attempts at 'scale-jumping') | |
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| What counts as 'new'? Locality, parochialism and exoticization | |
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| How locality gets valued in global knowledge making | |
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| Textual ideologies in gatekeeping the boundaries between local and global | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Decentring academic text production and evaluation practices | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Academic text production within the current marketplace | |
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| Making visible ideologies of text production and evaluation systems | |
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| Sustaining local research languages and publications | |
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| Internationality rather than 'international' | |
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| Concluding comments: from knowledge economy to knowledge as a gift economy | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |