The Incentives in Academic Journal Publishing in Colombia: New Approaches from the Theory of Academic Capitalism
- Isabel C. Montes, EAFIT University (Colombia)
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This article analyzes two Colombian national research policies known as Quality of National Publications Policies. Drawing on a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the aim here is to analyze the characteristics of the academic capitalism regime in Colombia by focusing on how these national research policies promote, justify, normalize, and/or resist the academic capitalist regime and its neoliberal roots. Promotion is related to the actions established by the policies in order to introduce the academic capitalist regime. Justification is related to the rationale behind the policies and presents the reasons why the analyzed policies introduce the academic capitalist regime. Normalization considers the accepted worldview that include assumptions about the right, normal or desirable. In other words, it shows how the policies naturalize certain ideas derived from the academic capitalist regime and its neoliberal roots. Finally, resistance considers the rationale, actions, and assumptions related to knowledge and education as public goods and/or against to the academic capitalist regime. The findings show that the academic capitalist regime is reflected and accepted in these Colombian national research policies and extend the theory of academic capitalism by adding the commercial for-profit model of academic publishing as a new layer and essential component of the academic capitalist regime that generates prestige behavior among professors.
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Isabel C. Montes is a professor at the School of Administration of EAFIT University (Colombia). She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri (USA). Her research focuses on the implementation of educational policies, higher education, and the science and technology system. She has been a Fulbright Colombia Fellow (2014), and recipient of the University of Missouri 2017 Higher Education Future Scholar Fellowship and Dr. Barbara K. Townsend Memorial Scholarship for Dissertation Research in Higher Education from the same institution (2019). In 2020 she obtained the Richard V. Hatley Educational Leadership Research Award. Recently, she published the UNESCO policy brief “Colombia: tracing good and emerging practices on the right to higher education around the world.”
