Studying the Circulation of Academic Knowledge as Reception
Résumé
The earliest Reception Studies (RS) of academic knowledge, in the 1910s, have drawn little attention. This chapter introduces some of these works, before moving to the late twentieth century, when RS consolidated. Different pieces are surveyed to highlight the four identified ways and various methods through which academic knowledge’s reception can be studied. It appears that RS are rather a framework than a method, and that these studies suffer from some enduring biases: androcentrism, ethnocentrism, occidentalocentrism and thanatocentrism. In its last part, the chapter presents some actual studies which acknowledge these biases and try to show a way beyond.