TY - JOUR AU - Finn, John C. AU - Peet, Richard AU - Mollett, Sharlene AU - Lauermann, John PY - 2017/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Reclaiming value from academic labor: commentary by the Editors of Human Geography JF - Fennia - International Journal of Geography JA - Fennia VL - 195 IS - 2 SE - Reflections DO - 10.11143/fennia.66683 UR - https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66683 SP - 182-184 AB - <p>There have long been discussions about the need for an alternative publishing model for academic research. This has been made clear by the September 2017 scandal involving <em>Third World Quarterly</em>. The editor’s deeply problematic decision to publish an essay arguing in favor of colonialism was likely meant as click-bate to drive clicks and citations. But we should not lose sight of the fact that this latest scandal is only one recent manifestation of a long-simmering problem that has periodically commanded significant attention in the academic literature, blogs, email lists, conference sessions, and the popular press. As a direct result, over the last decade or more, new journals have been created that specifically endeavor to offer routes around corporate/capitalist academic publishing, and several existing journals have removed themselves from this profit-driven ecosystem. In this commentary, the editorial team of the journal <em>Human Geography</em> weighs in on what we see as the nature of the problem, what we are doing in response, what our successes have been, and what challenges remain.</p> ER -