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Publication Date: 2025
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Confronting Intellectual Extraversion: Reflexivity and Efforts of Ethnic Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars
Comparative Education Review, v69 n3 p400-420 2025
Worldwide, humanities and social sciences (HSS) scholars produce and disseminate knowledge in an unequal global knowledge space, which can be caused by various structural, epistemological, and individual-level factors. Although global epistemic injustice receives much attention, the factors contributing to it, including the extraverted mindsets and practices of non-Euro-American scholars, remain less discussed. This article draws on semibiographical interviews with 30 high-achieving ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in mainland China, in Hong Kong, and overseas. It explores how these scholars display intellectual extraversion and why and how they are reflexive about and confronting it. The findings reveal three manifestations of intellectual extraversion, four sources of reflexivity regarding such extraversion, and three ways to confront it. The research uncovers the continuous reflexivity and efforts of ethnic Chinese HSS scholars in dealing with lingering epistemic discontinuities and exclusions and sheds light on new possible approaches to challenging global epistemic injustice in HSS research.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Extraversion Introversion, Non Western Civilization, Writing for Publication, Asian Culture, Chinese, Knowledge Representation, Humanities
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