ABSTRACT For many years now, knowledge production at universities and in countries like Vietnam has been framed by centre/periphery discourses. In this paper, we suggest that interpreting academics’ research identities in relation to these discourses can assist in understanding ways in which Vietnamese academics negotiate knowledge production. For this article, data on six participants are drawn from a qualitative study in which semi-structured interviews were used to investigate the positioning of different generations of academics working in the area of social sciences, in Vietnam or in the diaspora. Findings from this data revealed that senior researchers positioned their own local knowledge and experiences as central to what they perceived to be the betterment of Vietnam. In contrast, early and mid-career academics, especially those who studied in Western countries, looked outward to apply Western research frameworks to the Vietnamese context, placing Vietnam in a more peripheral position in the global academic community.

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构建越南学者的知识生产谈判：定位视角

摘要 多年来，大学和越南等国家的知识生产一直受到中心/边缘话语的限制。在本文中，我们建议解释与这些话语相关的学者的研究身份可以帮助理解越南学者协商知识生产的方式。在本文中，六名参与者的数据来自一项定性研究，其中使用半结构化访谈来调查在社会科学领域、越南或侨民中工作的不同代学者的定位。这些数据的结果表明，高级研究人员将他们自己的本地知识和经验定位为他们认为改善越南的核心。相比之下，职业生涯早期和中期的学者，