Abstract

WOCIECHOSKI, Darlan Pez  and  CATANI, Afrânio Mendes. The academic multifield. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2024, vol.40, e93860.  Epub Nov 22, 2024. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0411.93860.

This article examines the concept of academic multifield and its national and global scales. It mobilizes several fundamental concepts to connect theoretical elaborations: the notion of field, the ternary division of the field, the off-field actors, and the global, national, and local markets, alongside multi-territoriality, the world-system, and the transformation of the particular into the universal through university bureaucracy. The analysis of agents’ strategies and representations within the academic field is promising, as it aims to detail these agents’ positions on local, national, and global scales and their respective contexts - dominant/dominated, internal or external. This approach allows for the unveiling of cooperation strategies and competition among agents, considering these multiple and nuanced dispositions. This is particularly evident in the context of a culturally dependent capitalist field within Brazilian academia, which subordinates itself to foreign agents seeking to ascend both internally within their institutions and on the national scale.

Keywords : Higher Education; Educational Policy; Internationalization; Social Fields; Academic Field.

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