Brokered Dependency, Authoritarian Malepistemization, and Spectacularized Postcoloniality: Reflections on Chinese Academia

American Behavioral Scientist, Forthcoming

18 Pages Posted: 30 Nov 2022

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Yao Lin

New York University (NYU) - New York University (NYU), Shanghai

Date Written: May 4, 2022

Abstract

This paper calls for a paradigm shift in studying academic dependency, towards the paradigm of brokered dependency. Using Chinese academia as an example, I demonstrate how the neocolonial condition of academic dependency is always mediated through blockage-brokerage mechanisms. The two most salient blockage-brokerage mechanisms of dependency in the Chinese context are linguistic barrier and authoritarian malepistemization, and the effects of the latter consist of three layers: institutional, informational and incorporational. On top of their domestic impacts, those mechanisms jointly exacerbate spectacularized postcoloniality in anglophone-hegemonic global academic publishing. The paradigm of brokered dependency not only represents a more nuanced approach to the study of academic dependency, but also underscores the fact that the dismantling of the neocolonial condition cannot be conceived and pursued in isolation from comprehending and confronting the authoritarian condition, especially when the latter pertains under the disguise of anticolonialism.

Keywords: Chinese academia, academic dependency, brokered dependency, linguistic barrier, authoritarian malepistemization, anglophone hegemony, spectacularized postcoloniality

Suggested Citation

Lin, Yao, Brokered Dependency, Authoritarian Malepistemization, and Spectacularized Postcoloniality: Reflections on Chinese Academia (May 4, 2022). American Behavioral Scientist, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4241895

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