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Scaling Up Research Governance: From Exceptionalism to Fragmentation

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Global Governance and Muslim Organizations

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Currie-Alder examines how Muslim-majority states have governed public research investments and capacity during recent decades, identifying distinct perspectives that focus on the national, regional, and global levels. Public universities and research centers train skilled professionals, ministerial meetings and international organizations represent Islamic or Arab world science, while self-organizing scientists collaborate with peers abroad. National perspective privileges domestic science, regional perspective privileges cooperation among predominantly Muslim states, and global perspective privileges links to science-leading locations anywhere. Research governance shifted from emphasizing exceptionalism of science in the Muslim world to becoming more entangled with global science. Implications of this shift include narrowing of domestic research agendas onto shared “global” challenges, moving away from regional cooperation, and fragmenting research efforts across Muslim states.

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    Consequently, researchers face a significant barrier in trying to publish work focused on very local phenomena perceived to be of interest to a limited readership. Researchers recount rejection letters from journals citing the narrow focus of their work rather than its scientific quality. These letters include encouragement to expand the work to include a wider range of study site or case studies, yet this can exceed the time and resources available to local researchers.

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  1. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Bruce Currie-Alder

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  1. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Leslie A. Pal

  2. College of Islamic Studies Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

    M. Evren Tok

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Currie-Alder, B. (2019). Scaling Up Research Governance: From Exceptionalism to Fragmentation. In: Pal, L.A., Tok, M.E. (eds) Global Governance and Muslim Organizations. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92561-5_9

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