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Universities in translation : the mental labor of globalization / edited by Brett de Bary.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory & Translation
- TRACES ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Education, Higher.
- Education and globalization.
- Universities and colleges--International cooperation.
- Universities and colleges.
- Intellectual cooperation.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays analyze the global movement to ""reform"" and standardize higher education as a translation of disciplinary technologies of new managerialism from business and industry to the university.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""By Way of a Preface, Whither Intellectuals?""; ""A Presentiment of the Death of Intellectuals in Korean Society""; ""Humanities Across the Borders: A View from the Periphery""; ""Part 1. University Reform and Its Ironies: Globalization as Rhetoric""; ""Academic Capitalism: Toward a Global Free Trade Zone in University Services?""; ""The Oxymoron of Higher Education: Neoliberal Restructuring and the Incorporation of Japanese National Universities""; ""The Accountologist: An Emerging Form of Anthropological Life in Mexican Universities""
- ""The “Age� of the University in Asia""""Neoliberal University Reform and the International Exchange of Intellectuals""; ""Part 3. Thought and Resistance""; ""The University Without Wall: Jewish Stu dies, Holocaust Stu dies, Israel Stu dies""; ""How Many Ward Church ills: Organizing Against Racism, Empire, and the Neoconservative Assault on the University""; ""Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons""; ""The Discourse of the University: Modern and Postm odern""; ""Faculty Governance in the “Universityof Excellence�: Comments""; ""The Conditions of Theory""
- ""Part 4. The University and the Emancipatory Project: Limits and Possibilities""""Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers""; ""Cognitive Capitalism and Its Discontents""; ""Comment on Yann Moulier Boutang�s “Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers�""; ""Imagined Networks: Digital Media, Race, and the University""; ""Very Much a Midnight Child:cSoftware and the Translation of Timescat the University""; ""How an “Intellectual Commune� Organizes Movement: A Brief Report on the Experiment “Research Space Suyu+Nomo�""
- ""Traces Editors Recommend ..... The Edu-Factory Machine: Transnational Politics and TranslationalInstitutions""""Submission Guidelines""; ""Traces Publishers""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-75039-9
- 9786612750397
- 988-220-561-5
- OCLC:
- 722721204
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