Questing Excellence in Academia
Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTN...
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| author | Sørensen, Knut H. Traweek, Sharon |
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| description | Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book refl exively examines their disturbing disputes about quality, competition, and innovation. It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world’s immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability. It shows the important, strategic work of domesticating, co- morphing, and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students, faculty, society members, and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fi elds of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-745152025-08-13T14:11:49Z Questing Excellence in Academia Sørensen, Knut H. Traweek, Sharon Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book refl exively examines their disturbing disputes about quality, competition, and innovation. It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world’s immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability. It shows the important, strategic work of domesticating, co- morphing, and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students, faculty, society members, and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fi elds of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies. 2021-11-27T04:01:36Z 2021-11-27T04:01:36Z 2021-11-26T13:49:25Z 2022 book ONIX_20211126_9781000528930_10 ONIX_20211126_9781000528930_10 OCN: 1268543141 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51582 9781000528930 9780367259334 9780429290633 9781032152677 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74515 eng Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51582/1/9781000528930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51582/1/9781000528930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51582/1/9781000528930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51582/1/9781000528930.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429290633 10.4324/9780429290633 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781000528930 9780367259334 9780429290633 9781032152677 Routledge 236 open access |
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