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Making the World Global – U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary

Autor Isaac A. Kamola
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2019
Isaac 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478004738
ISBN-10: 1478004738
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 3 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Preface 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

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