Linguistic Cleavages in Canadian Political Science: Evidence from the Discipline's Annual Conference

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作者
Brie, Evelyne [1 ]
Daoust, Jean-Francois [2 ]
机构
[1] Western Univ, Social Sci Ctr, Dept Polit Sci, Room 7335, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada
[2] Univ Sherbrooke, Sch Appl Polit, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE | 2024年 / 57卷 / 02期
关键词
representation; language; diversity; Canadian politics; political science; repr & eacute; sentation; langue; diversit & eacute; politique canadienne; science politique; PRESIDENTIAL-ADDRESS; GENDER; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; ENGLISH; ASSOCIATION; DIVERSITY; SCHOLARS; FUTURE; WOMEN;
D O I
10.1017/S0008423924000222
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
Academics across Canada, an officially bilingual and multicultural country, devote a lot of attention to diversity and representation. This is particularly true for political scientists. In this research note, we focus on the linguistic composition of panels and overall linguistic fragmentation of the most important in-person event for Canadian political science: the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). To do so, we generated a dataset based on the official program of the 2023 annual conference. Our main results are twofold. First, we find an important under-representation of French-speaking events and academic communications (i.e., panels and papers). Second, we computed Herfindahl-Hirschman indexes demonstrating that francophone-dominated panels and co-authored papers with francophone first authors are significantly more linguistically diverse than anglophone panels and papers. Our results highlight important blind spots in Canadian political science and help make sense of the lack of representation of French-language work in Canadian academia. Les chercheurs acad & eacute;miques du Canada, un pays officiellement bilingue et multiculturel, accordent beaucoup d'attention & agrave; la diversit & eacute; et & agrave; la repr & eacute;sentation. C'est particuli & egrave;rement le cas des politologues. Dans cette note de recherche, nous & eacute;valuons la composition linguistique des panels et la fragmentation linguistique globale du plus important & eacute;v & eacute;nement en pr & eacute;sentiel de la science politique canadienne, & agrave; savoir la conf & eacute;rence annuelle de l'Association canadienne de science politique (ACSP). Pour ce faire, nous avons g & eacute;n & eacute;r & eacute; une base de donn & eacute;es bas & eacute;e sur le programme officiel de la conf & eacute;rence annuelle de 2023. Nos principaux r & eacute;sultats sont les suivants. Premi & egrave;rement, nous constatons une importante sous-repr & eacute;sentation des & eacute;v & eacute;nements (i.e., panels) et des communications acad & eacute;miques en fran & ccedil;ais. Deuxi & egrave;mement, nous avons calcul & eacute; un indice de Herfindahl-Hirschman d & eacute;montrant que les panels domin & eacute;s par les francophones et les communications co-pr & eacute;sent & eacute;es avec des premiers auteurs francophones sont significativement plus diversifi & eacute;s sur le plan linguistique que les panels et les communications & agrave; dominance anglophone. Nos r & eacute;sultats mettent en & eacute;vidence d'importantes lacunes en science politique canadienne et aident & agrave; comprendre le manque de repr & eacute;sentation des travaux en fran & ccedil;ais dans la sph & egrave;re acad & eacute;mique canadienne.
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