I'm confused.
Is Kwabena in support of or not in support of the trend in collaborative publishing he describes himself as observing in continental African humanities and social sciences scholarship?
thanks
toyin
On 26 March 2018 at 17:53, Windows Live 2018 <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Kwabena for raising this vital issue which I hinted at tangentially on another matter: comparative popular music where collaborators as well as derivative authors are equally mutually smiling to the banks while a section of humanities scholars continually gripe about originality and copyright as if any single author invented the language in which his scholarship was anchored in which case it would be an idiolect understandable only by him and no point would have been made. . May your head remain long on your neck!
I said the humanities precisely because I have been an avid reader of international scientific journals for decades and know that reported major breakthroughs are co-researched and co- authored by a team of scientists as the NORM (since no single scientist has the wherewhital to bankroll the whole process like the CERN atomic smashing process to recreate what happened at singularity how could any single scientist claim credit?
Just because you originate the initial rough idea does not mean the whole develpoments and twists and turns of research is due to your superhuman mind alone. Thus credit along the line must be equally given where credit is due even in the humanities
. This is crux of the message of Roland Barthes the ace comparatist in S/Z
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I know I am putting my neck out there for decapitation, but from my point of view we are only retailing ideas here and hopefully no one would brandish a machete! One feature of African scholars based in Africa is that collaborative scholarshipamong them is curiously intense. You find one Social Science, Liberal Arts, Humanities article/essay of about 15 to 20 pages authored by about five-plus scholars. I don't think this promotes healthy competitive environments for rigorous research.
Kwabena Akurang-Parry
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