Frame Against the Grain: Asymmetries, Interference, and the Politics of EU Comparison

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Frame Against the Grain: Asymmetries, Interference, and the Politics of EU Comparison

Original language description

This chapter reflects on two interrelated research projects the author was involved in between 2006 and 2010. Both projects intended to make multiple comparisons between European countries, between East and West’, selected academic disciplines, and different types of research institutions. At the same time, the investigated realities already involved a number of framings such as assessment exercises comparing the research performance’ of teams (in an institute) or researcher organisations (in a country). This chapter looks into how and with what (collateral) effects we as researchers practised comparisons in these two projects: What was taken as the frame of comparison? How did researchers’ framings interfere with those of research participants? How were the frames reflected, taken into account, or made an object of inquiry sui generis? What epistemic and geopolitical asymmetries were embedded in our practices of comparison, and how may they have become destabilised over the course of the two projects? It argues that while we cannot stop framing, there are alternatives to how we compare, and we should try to frame (in the EU projects) against the grain’. It suggests that we should be more courageous and challenging in relation to epistemologically and politically established framings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F11%2F0127" target="_blank" >GAP404/11/0127: Mass higher education in institutional settings: ethnography of academic departments in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Practising Comparison

ISBN

978-0-9931449-4-3

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

166-186

Number of pages of the book

321

Publisher name

Mattering Press

Place of publication

Manchester

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