The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas / edited by Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhoads, Robert A.

Torres, Carlos Alberto

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--North America.

Education, Higher.

Education and globalization--North America.

Education and globalization.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Latin America.

Education and globalization--Latin America.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

Latin America.

North America.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 360 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif, : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume explores the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets throughout the Americas in light of the growing influence of globalization. It offers a biting critique of neoliberal globalization and its anti-democratic elements. In seeking to challenge the hegemony of neoliberal globalization, the authors highlight the ways in which corporate capitalism, academic capitalism, and increased militarization-both in the form of terrorism and in the international war against terrorism-are directing societies and institutions.

Throughout this volume, the contributors argue that neoliberal globalization has changed the context for academic work, research and development, science, and social responsibility at universities. They examine issues of access and social mobility, and argue that the recent push toward privatization limits the democratic and emancipatory possibilities of universities. Finally, the book explores various forms of resistance and discusses globalization in terms of social movements and global human rights.

Contents:

Foreword, Critical theory, globalization, and higher education : political economy and the cul-de-sac of the postmodernist cultural turn / Raymond A Morrow

Introduction : globalization and higher education in the Americas / Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads

World without war / Noam Chomsky

University in the 21st century : toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Academic capitalism and the new economy : privatization as shifting the target of public subsidy in higner education / Gary Rhoads and Sheila Slaughter

Reforming the reforms : transformation and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities / Atilio A. Boron

Globalization and the challenge to national universities in Argentina and Mexico / Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster

Latin American identities in transition : a diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian universities / Marcela Mollis

Brazil's local solutions to global problems / Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema

Mexico's estímulos : faculty compensation based on piecework / Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika

Graduate student unionization as a postindustrial social movement : identity, ideology, and the contested US academy / Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades

Political economy of higher education in the time of global markets : whither the social responsibility of the university? / Daniel Schugurensky

Global economy, the state, social movements, and the university : concluding remarks and an agenda for action / Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804751684

0804751692

OCLC:

61122968