Unpacking ontological security: A decolonial reading of scholarly impact |
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Authors: | Riyad A. Shahjahan Anne E. Wagner |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA;2. Department of Social Work, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada |
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Abstract: | Despite the growing debate about scholarly impact, an analysis of the onto-epistemic grammar underlying impact has remained absent. By taking a different analytical approach to examining impact, we interrogate the concept through the lens of decolonial thought. We offer an empathetic review of the impact scholarship and illuminate the limits of the modern imaginary that circumscribe critiques of impact in the literature, making visible the Eurocentric and provincial horizons of modern reason underlying these critiques and impact in general. Drawing on ?ūnyatā ontological perspective, we seek to articulate from modernity imaginary’s edges and suggest imagining and being otherwise. We argue that the question of scholarly impact is intimately structured by and connected to the modern subject’s desire for ontological security. |
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Keywords: | Scholarly impact impact metrics onto-epistemic grammar coloniality Eastern ontologies Sūnyatā |
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