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- Traces 5: Universities in Translation: The Mental Labour of Globalization
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: Traces
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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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Editors
- p. vi
- Contributors
- pp. ix-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-23
- By Way of a Preface, Whither Intellectuals?
- Part 1. University Reform and Its Ironies: Globalization as Rhetoric
- Part 2. University Reform and Bildung: Subjective Technologies, Language, and Colonial Legacies
- The “Age” of the University in Asia
- pp. 197-206
- Part 3. Thought and Resistance
- The Conditions of Theory
- pp. 299-313
- Part 4. The University and the Emancipatory Project: Limits and Possibilities
- Cognitive Capitalism and Its Discontents
- pp. 331-335
- Submission Guidelines
- pp. 387-388
- Traces Publishers
- pp. 389-390
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882205611
Related ISBN(s)
9789622099913
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OCLC
707092912
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
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