The research on cross-national research cooperation, including the categories of Global South/North, tends to leave out the issue of research funding. However, research funders are no neutral infrastructure by and for the scientific community, but represent societal, political, or economic stakeholders, whose expectations shape funding policy goals and practices. In consequence, funders need to be integrated as intermediary organization when discussing the ideology and effects of geographic pairing. In our article, we develop and sustain the proposition that an analysis of funders’ views is imperative to understand the ways international research collaborations of unequally equipped participants are perceived, maintained, and sometimes reframed over time. Building on interview data and policy documents from six countries, we analyze the semantics employed to make sense of North–South relationships. We find that narratives from development cooperation complement and sometimes supersede the traditionally liberal meta-narrative of scientific collaborations.

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研究资助的地理：语义学及其他

包括全球南/北类别在内的跨国研究合作研究往往忽略了研究经费的问题。但是，研究资助者并不是科学界和科学界的中立基础设施，而是代表社会，政治或经济利益相关者，他们的期望决定着资助政策的目标和实践。因此，在讨论地理配对的意识形态和影响时，需要将资助者整合为中介组织。在我们的文章中，我们提出并维持了这样一种观点，即必须对资助者的观点进行分析，以理解随着时间的流逝，人们会认识，维持，有时甚至重新组织装备不平等的参与者的国际研究合作的方式。基于来自六个国家的采访数据和政策文件，我们分析了用来理解南北关系的语义。我们发现，来自发展合作的叙述补充了有时甚至取代了科学合作传统上自由的元叙述。