A victim's tale : an auto-ethnographic account of a deceived conference delegate

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Essex, Jane; Habibie, Pejman and Fazel, Ismaeil, eds. (2023) A victim's tale : an auto-ethnographic account of a deceived conference delegate. In: Predatory Practices in Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Sharing. Routledge, New York, pp. 65-78. ISBN 9781003170723 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723)

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Abstract

The chapter provides an auto-ethnographic account of an academic who unintentionally visited a predatory conference. The characteristics of the specific conference are considered and related to the wider body of literature on such practices. It considers the conference as a cultural artefact that is symptomatic of the performative culture that pervades Higher Education along with the absence of systematic training on fraudulent academic practices. Different types and levels of harm that different victims incur are described, as well as the corollary damage done to their institutions. It considers the extent to which the practice is sustained by victims’ reluctance to speak out when they have been subjected to academic fraud. The chapter concludes by recommending a move towards an evaluation of the institutional and sector-wide failures that lead people to engage with fraudulent conferences.

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Essex, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9938-8134; Habibie, Pejman and Fazel, Ismaeil
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