Abstracts
Abstract
This is an angry punk collective autoethnography – we scream about inequalities in knowledge production.
This is an angry punk collective autoethnography – we scream about our experience of being rejected by so-called international journals.
This is an angry punk collective autoethnography – we scream in Polish and English according to the margin lever.
This is an angry punk collective autoethnography – we scream from the semi-periphery. We’re really screwed!
Keywords:
- punk collective autoethnography,
- semi-periphery,
- inequalities,
- internationality,
- academic knowledge
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