Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South

Treasuring all the Knowledges
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-33206-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Insider Guides to Success in Academia

This book centres on the stories of transnational early-career scholars from the Global South who started their postgraduate studies as adult immigrants and international students. This is a fascinating guide to navigating academia for those whose biographies and educational trajectories are not fully recognized by the traditional academia.

Inspired by and rooted in Indigenous epistemologies women of colour feminism, and decolonial studies, the authors – each transnational scholars from the Global South – consider the knowledge systems brought from home that helped them to navigate academia in a foreign country and the knowledges they wished they had before entering postgraduate study. Chapters cover:

- Overcoming internalised fears and the lack of a sense of belonging

- Recognising the diverse and abundant knowledges that transnational scholars bring to academia

- Building healthy relationships with advisors and mentors

- Dealing with unexpected events outside of academia while away from home

- Seeking jobs during and after the postgraduate degree

Including contributions from leading transnational academics and supported by letters, poems and drawings, this book serves as a source of information and inspiration for transnational early-career scholars navigating academia.

‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia.

These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often-implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viveros Avendano, Iris

Chiappa Baros, Roxana

Viveros Avendaño, Iris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Acknowledging the roots, motivations, and historical conditions that are part of who we are  2. Abundance: Treasuring the knowledges learned at home in the process of transnational mobility  3. Seeing clearly: Confronting internalized complex of inferiority in academia  4. Building healthy relationships with advisors and mentors who grew up in other cultures  5. Living as a (trans)national scholar while responding to the demands of academia  6. Seeking a job during and after postgraduate degrees  7. Lessons learned

Über Autor(innen)

Roxana Chiappa Baros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Tarapacá, Chile.

Iris Viveros Avendaño is a part-time lecturer on Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, USA.