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"Academic imperialism" as a book category refers to works that examine how knowledge production, academic institutions, and scholarly practices reproduce unequal power relations between regions, languages, and disciplines—often privileging Western paradigms, methodologies, and publishing norms at the expense of local knowledges and voices. Books in this genre trace historical roots in colonialism and empire, document contemporary mechanisms such as funding priorities, journal gatekeeping, citation and language biases, and the global metrics industry, and explore consequences like epistemic injustice, brain drain, and distorted curricula. They range from theoretical critiques and comparative case studies to policy analyses and first-person accounts, and they often propose decolonizing alternatives, ethical research partnerships, and institutional reforms. The audience spans scholars in the social sciences and humanities, higher-education policymakers, graduate students, and general readers interested in the politics of knowledge and globalization.

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