ABSTRACT

In this contribution to the special issue on Fakery in Africa, I catalogue some examples of academic fakes. I show that our fields are shot through with fakery, and ask what is at stake in holding these fakes up not only as real, but as what we value most highly. Fakes and fakery, I suggest, are not exceptional and deviant forms, but are in fact endemic to academia, and in particular to African Studies scholarship. Acknowledging that much around us in academia is fake, and admitting that many practices are fakery, I argue, will allow us to talk more openly about the hierarchies and inequalities of power and resources that shape knowledge production.

摘要

在对非洲造假特刊的贡献中，我列出了一些学术造假的例子。我展示了我们的领域充斥着伪造，并询问将这些伪造不仅是真实的，而且是我们最看重的东西，这有什么利害关系。我认为，赝品和赝品并不是异常和异常的形式，但实际上是学术界的特有现象，尤其是非洲研究奖学金。我认为，承认我们周围的学术界很多都是假的，并承认许多实践都是假的，这将使我们能够更公开地谈论影响知识生产的权力和资源的等级和不平等。