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This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the âWest to the restâ. Thus, distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produced knowledge in different regions of the world.

What flows of power and influence can be traced in the shifting geographies of higher education? How do national systems locate themselves in global arenas, and what consequences does such positioning have for local practices and relations of higher education? How do universities and university workers respond to the increasing commodification of knowledge

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Higher Education in the 21st Century, Debbie Epstein



Section 1.

2. Introduction: Producing and Reproducing the University, Rosemary Deem

3.Repairing the Deficits of Modernity; the emergence of parallel discourses in higher education in Europe, Roger Dale


4. The University and the Welfare State in Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context, Marek Kwiek


5. University Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: the Case for Academic Caesarism, Steve Fuller


6. (Re)producing Universities: Knowledge Dissemination, Market Power and the Global Knowledge Commons, Penny Ciancanelli


7.New Tricks and Old Dogs? The ‘Third Mission’ and the Re-production of the University, Maria Nedeva


Section 2

8.Introduction: Supplying knowledge, Rebecca Boden

9.The Constitution of a New Global Regime: Higher Education in the GATS/WTO Framework, Antoni Verger


10.In Quality We Trust? The Case of Quality Assurance in Finnish Universities, Jani Ursin


11.HRM in HE: People Reform or Re-forming People?, Matt Waring


12.Policy Incitements to Mobility: Some Speculations and Provocations, Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey


Section 3:


13.Introduction: Demanding Knowledge – Marketing and Consumption, Susan Wright


14.Towards a High Skills Economy:Higher Education and the New Realities of Global Capitalism, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton


15.International Student Migration: The Case of Chinese ‘Sea-turtles’, Wei Shen


16.Government Rhetoric and Student Understandings: Discursive Framings of Higher Education ‘Choice’, Rachel Brooks


17.Higher Education: A Powerhouse for Development in a Neo-Liberal Age?, Rajani Naidoo


18. Shaping the global market of higher education through quality promotion, Gigliola Mathison


19.The Rise of Private Higher Education in Senegal: An Example of Knowledge Shopping?, Gunnar Guddal Michelson


Section 4

20.

Introduction: Transnational Academic Flows, Fazal Rizvi


21.Have global academic flows created a global labour market?, Simon Marginson


22.Transnational academic mobility in a global knowledge economy: comparative and historical motifs, Terri Kim


23.The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora: Communication Networks among Overseas Chinese Intellectuals in the Global Era, Anthony R. Welch and Zhang Zhen


24. Internationalization and the Cosmopolitical University, Rodrigo Britez and Michael A. Peters


25.The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education, Bill Cope and Marh Kalantzis

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9780415963787, 978-0415963787
      ISBN10: 0415963788

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the âWest to the restâ. Thus, distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produced knowledge in different regions of the world.

      What flows of power and influence can be traced in the shifting geographies of higher education? How do national systems locate themselves in global arenas, and what consequences does such positioning have for local practices and relations of higher education? How do universities and university workers respond to the increasing commodification of knowledge

      Table of Contents

      1.Introduction: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Higher Education in the 21st Century, Debbie Epstein



      Section 1.

      2. Introduction: Producing and Reproducing the University, Rosemary Deem

      3.Repairing the Deficits of Modernity; the emergence of parallel discourses in higher education in Europe, Roger Dale


      4. The University and the Welfare State in Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context, Marek Kwiek


      5. University Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: the Case for Academic Caesarism, Steve Fuller


      6. (Re)producing Universities: Knowledge Dissemination, Market Power and the Global Knowledge Commons, Penny Ciancanelli


      7.New Tricks and Old Dogs? The ‘Third Mission’ and the Re-production of the University, Maria Nedeva


      Section 2

      8.Introduction: Supplying knowledge, Rebecca Boden

      9.The Constitution of a New Global Regime: Higher Education in the GATS/WTO Framework, Antoni Verger


      10.In Quality We Trust? The Case of Quality Assurance in Finnish Universities, Jani Ursin


      11.HRM in HE: People Reform or Re-forming People?, Matt Waring


      12.Policy Incitements to Mobility: Some Speculations and Provocations, Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey


      Section 3:


      13.Introduction: Demanding Knowledge – Marketing and Consumption, Susan Wright


      14.Towards a High Skills Economy:Higher Education and the New Realities of Global Capitalism, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton


      15.International Student Migration: The Case of Chinese ‘Sea-turtles’, Wei Shen


      16.Government Rhetoric and Student Understandings: Discursive Framings of Higher Education ‘Choice’, Rachel Brooks


      17.Higher Education: A Powerhouse for Development in a Neo-Liberal Age?, Rajani Naidoo


      18. Shaping the global market of higher education through quality promotion, Gigliola Mathison


      19.The Rise of Private Higher Education in Senegal: An Example of Knowledge Shopping?, Gunnar Guddal Michelson


      Section 4

      20.

      Introduction: Transnational Academic Flows, Fazal Rizvi


      21.Have global academic flows created a global labour market?, Simon Marginson


      22.Transnational academic mobility in a global knowledge economy: comparative and historical motifs, Terri Kim


      23.The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora: Communication Networks among Overseas Chinese Intellectuals in the Global Era, Anthony R. Welch and Zhang Zhen


      24. Internationalization and the Cosmopolitical University, Rodrigo Britez and Michael A. Peters


      25.The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education, Bill Cope and Marh Kalantzis

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