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

Kamola Isaac A.
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

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9781478004738
Publisert
2019-06-07
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Duke University Press
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408 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Kamola Isaac A.

Biographical note

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

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

Kamola Isaac A.
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Kamola Isaac A.
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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"<i>Making the World Global </i>is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production," [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.”

- Rafael Khachaturian, Perspectives on Politics

“[<i>Making the World Global</i>] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”<br />  

- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, International Politics Reviews

"<i>Making the World Global</i> merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples."

- Paul A. Kramer, Reviews in American History

Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s, visions of the world made popular within area studies and international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and educational policies that originated in business schools and international financial institutions. Academics within these institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the 1990s, American universities embraced this language of globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing logic of higher education. In Making the World Global Isaac A. Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material relations within which knowledge is produced.
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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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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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“Isaac A. Kamola offers a compelling look at the rise of globalization as a focus of politics and knowledge production in the academy. Linking the globalization of the African university to the globalization of politics and the academy in the United States is as insightful as it is revelatory.”
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"<i>Making the World Global </i>is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production," [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.”

- Rafael Khachaturian, Perspectives on Politics

“[<i>Making the World Global</i>] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”<br />  

- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, International Politics Reviews

"<i>Making the World Global</i> merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples."

- Paul A. Kramer, Reviews in American History

Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s, visions of the world made popular within area studies and international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and educational policies that originated in business schools and international financial institutions. Academics within these institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the 1990s, American universities embraced this language of globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing logic of higher education. In Making the World Global Isaac A. Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material relations within which knowledge is produced.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer
“Isaac A. Kamola offers a compelling look at the rise of globalization as a focus of politics and knowledge production in the academy. Linking the globalization of the African university to the globalization of politics and the academy in the United States is as insightful as it is revelatory.”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478004738
Publisert
2019-06-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Kamola Isaac A.

Biographical note

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

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