Academic Fakes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Coetzee (0000-0002-1526-7862, University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 272-275 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2020.1848533 |
| OpenAlex | W4210241256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this contribution to the special issue on Fakery in Africa, I catalogue some examples of academic fakes. I show that our fields are shot through with fakery, and ask what is at stake in holding these fakes up not only as real, but as what we value most highly. Fakes and fakery, I suggest, are not exceptional and deviant forms, but are in fact endemic to academia, and in particular to African Studies scholarship. Acknowledging that much around us in academia is fake, and admitting that many practices are fakery, I argue, will allow us to talk more openly about the hierarchies and inequalities of power and resources that shape knowledge production
Knowledge production · Media studies · Political science · Power (physics · Scholarship · Shot (pellet · Sociology · Value (mathematics · African cultural and philosophical studies · Computer Science · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |