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Book SynopsisIsaac 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.
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Making the World Global is 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 *
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Making the World Global] 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....”
-- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni * International Politics Reviews *
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Making the World Global 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 *
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Globalization and the World 1
Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary
1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary 29
2. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary 62
Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary
3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary 83
4. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary 118
Part III. Reproducing the Global University
5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies 141
6. An Opportunity to Transform the University,
and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University 168
Conclusion: Reworlding the Global 189
Notes 195
References 231
Index 269
