{"product_id":"making-the-world-global-9781478004172","title":"Making the World Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsaac A. Komola examines how the relationships between universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions inform the academic understanding of the world as global in ways that frame higher education as a commodity, private good, and source of human capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking the World Global \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production,\" [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.” -- Rafael Khachaturian * Perspectives on Politics *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eMaking the World Global\u003c\/i\u003e] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni * International Politics Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking the World Global\u003c\/i\u003e merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples.\" -- Paul A. Kramer * Reviews in American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Globalization and the World  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Creative Imagination\" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary  62\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary  83\u003cbr\u003e 4. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary  118\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reproducing the Global University\u003cbr\u003e 5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have \"Reform\" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies  141\u003cbr\u003e 6. An Opportunity to Transform the University,\u003ci\u003e and, Frankly, the World\u003c\/i\u003e: John Sexton and the Global Networked University  168\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Reworlding the Global  189\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e References  231\u003cbr\u003e Index  269","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408975569239,"sku":"9781478004172","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478004172.jpg?v=1730504931","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-the-world-global-9781478004172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}