%0 Journal Article
%T Under the Will of the State, Rethink the Academic Productions of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Taiwan: A Perspective of Bourdieu's Field Theory
%A Tian Juh Chiou
%J Journal of Library and Information Science Research
%D 2007
%I Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
%X Adopting Bourdieu's perspective on field and habitus, this paper examines the relational positions of the social sciences and humanities in Taiwanese academic field and tries to put forward some possibilities of their agencies under these circumstances. The relevant evidences show that, in the global academic field, Taiwan has been marginal or on the marginal section of semi-marginal status. In addition, owing to Taiwanese university teachers' long-term dependence on the academic knowledge of American and Western core countries, academic activities among Taiwanese scholars in the social sciences and humanities tend to be marginal. Furthermore, with the rapid growth of the number of Taiwanese university teachers, the scattering of "ultural or social capital" and a lack of the capacity to accumulate the scientific power and social reputation, they can only choose to pile up the "cademic power". Nowadays university teachers in Taiwan are getting more and more like high-rank official, gradually forming the law-abiding habitus and holding the public officials or even the soldiers absolute royalty to the authority of academic field. In the schema of "lanned knowledge" of the country, university teachers are gradually becoming labor contractors of the academic production line, devoting themselves to the creation of national competition. These factors result in severe academic contradictions among scholars in the social sciences and humanities, who used to be characterized by critical thinking, landing them in paradoxes and dilemmas in their lives. This article argues that, to avoid becoming the machines of papers producing, the only way to the "edemption" of scholars in the social sciences and humanities would be to put into practice what they preach by bodies rather than to debate orally. They have to throw out the commission and power bestowed by the legitimate academic institution, take efforts to upgrade their own "ultural hierarchy" and to join the teams of academic production as the roles of intellectuals. First of all, scholars of the social sciences and humanities ought to aim at deconstructing the hegemonic hierarchy of SSCI and TSSCI in Taiwan, making the diverse development of Taiwanese academic journals possible. Secondly, their academic products have to face their readers the extensive audience in societies by publishing books or publishing on the internet. In doing so, the value of books will be re-established. Finally, this paper suggest that if scholars in the social sciences and humanities would like to claim their autonomy, why not just compl
%K Academic Field
%K Academic Productions
%K Habitus
%U http://lac3.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/vj-attachment/2009/10/attach18.pdf