sebastienne

The latter point you mention there is mostly what my dissertation is about; investigating the mechanisms which maintain the US/European domination of scientific thought. In order to carry out, for example, discourse analysis on journals' selection criteria, I really need to establish that "universal importance" is not an easy criterion to apply when your editorial board is not particularly representative of plurality of experience. My supervisor seems to think I'm accusing editors of being careless or blinkered (if not consciously prejudiced) but I'm really not - I'm just saying that we all have contexts. That's not really a thing that could be changed or even should be changed - it just is! But apparently I need evidence for it...