Hanafi S. auteur aut IRD Arvanitis Rigas auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access This article aims at questioning the relationship between Arab social research and language by arguing that many factors including the political economy of publication, globalization, internationalization and commodification of higher education have marginalized peripheral languages such as Arabic. The authors demonstrate, on the one hand, that this marginalization is not necessarily structurally inevitable but indicates dependency by choice, and, on the other hand, how globalization has reinforced the English language hegemony. This article uses the results of a questionnaire survey about the use of references in PhD and Master's theses. The survey, which was answered by 165 persons, targeted those who hold a Master's or PhD degree from any university in the Arab world or who have dealt with a topic related to the Arab world, no matter in which discipline. specialized Arab social science citation index English as hegemonic language internationalization of research research practice scientific publication PAYS ARABES 116 62 5 723-742 2014 0011-3921 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010062536 10.1177/0011392114531504 0011-3921 [F B010062536] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010062536 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2014/10/010062536.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2014-11-04 2017-08-23 fdi:010062536 fre