Project description
The psychological foundations of knowledge production
Scholarly communities educate and influence policymakers. They can impact foreign policies and shape power transitions. Studying the psychological mechanisms of knowledge production offers an innovative angle to understand how scholars think about the world and how they frame and disseminate their knowledge about International Relations (IR). The EU-funded MICROFOUNDATIONS project will explore how individual differences (personality, morality, values, prejudice, and stereotyping) shape knowledge production in IR in non-Western countries. Recent research suggests that geopolitical changes in world politics impact how scholars produce knowledge about their countries and the world, how they see themselves in society and among other scholars, and also that renewed attention to non-Western intellectual production can elicit misrecognition and produce a self-effacing stance.
Objective
This project aims to identify and explore the underlying psychological mechanisms (or microfoundations) of knowledge production in IR scholarly communities in the South. Recent research suggests that the attention to non-Western intellectual production can elicit misrecognition and produce and a self-effacing stance. Research has shown that geopolitical changes in world politics impact not only what scholars in those regions think about the world but also have psychological effects on how scholars see themselves and the knowledge they produce about their countries and international relations. Material, socio-political, and geopolitical dynamics affect the conditions for intellectual innovation and knowledge production. States, however, do not produce knowledge; scholars do. Scholarly communities educate, inform, and influence policymakers —impacting either directly and indirectly on foreign and defence policies, the country’s behaviour in international politics, and more broadly, how power transitions are shaped. Studying the underlying psychological mechanisms of knowledge production offers an innovative angle to understand how scholars in emerging powers think the world, how they frame and disseminate their knowledge about the international, how they perceive other cognate scholarly communities, and more broadly, allow us a window to predict how IR knowledge will frame the future of international politics. To date, little work has examined the structure or psychological correlates of the knowledge production about the international. I fill this gap by combining sociology of knowledge and behavioural science. Across three studies, I explore how individual differences (e.g. personality, morality, values, prejudice, and stereotyping) are associated with knowledge production in IR. I focus on these because they have been studied most widely in social and political psychology, as my departing point to establish interdisciplinary points and to allow replicability.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- social sciences psychology behavioural psychology
- social sciences sociology anthropology social anthropology
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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1165 KOBENHAVN
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