Universities in translation : the mental labor of globalization /

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Imprint:Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2010.
Description:xviii, 390 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Traces ; 5
Traces (Ithaca, N.Y.) ; 5.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8065939
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Other authors / contributors:Bary, Brett de, 1943-
ISBN:9789622099913
9622099912
9789622099920 (pbk.)
9622099920 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Statement of Purpose
  • List of Editors
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • By Way of a Preface, Whither Intellectuals? (Seoul, Moscow)
  • 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 (Giessen, Tokyo, Mérida, Paris, Shanghai)
  • 1. Academic Capitalism: Toward a Global Free Trade Zone in University Services
  • 2. The Oxymoron of Higher Education: Neoliberal Restructuring and the Incorporation of Japanese National Universities
  • 3. The Accountologist: An Emerging Form of Anthropological Life in Mexican Universities
  • 4. Of Forms and Re-forms in French Higher Education: The École normale supérieure
  • From Elitism to Populism: The "Industrial" Model and Chinese Higher Education
  • Part 2. University Reform and Bildung: Subjective Technologies, Language, and Colonial Legacies (Singapore, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul)
  • 5. Once Again, Reinventing Culture: Singapore and "Globalized" Education
  • 6. Redefining "Liberal Education" in the Chinese University
  • 7. Articulation, Not Translation: Knowledge-Production in an Age of Globalization
  • 8. On English as a Chinese Language: Implementing Globalization
  • 9. The "Age" of the University in Asia
  • 10. Neoliberal University Reform and the International Exchange of Intellectuals
  • Part 3. Thought and Resistance (New York, Boulder, Cambridge, Ithaca, Aberdeen)
  • 11. The University Without Wall: Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Israel Studies
  • 12. How Many Ward Churchills: Organizing Against Racism, Empire, and the Neoconservative Assault on the University
  • 13. Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons
  • 14. The Discourse of the University: Modern and Postmodern
  • 15. Faculty Governance in the "University of Excellence": Comments
  • 16. The Conditions of Theory
  • Part 4. The University and the Emancipatory Project: Limits and Possibilities (Paris, Ithaca, Providence, Mérida, Seoul)
  • 17. Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers
  • 18. Cognitive Capitalism and Its Discontents -Dominick LaCapra
  • 19. Comment on Yann Moulier Boutang's "Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers"
  • 20. Imagined Networks: Digital Media, Race, and the University
  • 21. Very Much a Midnight Child: Software and the Translation of Times at the University
  • 22. How an "Intellectual Commune" Organizes Movement: A Brief Report on the Experiment "Research Space Suyu+Nomo"
  • 23. Traces Editors Recommend... The Edu-Factory Machine: Transnational Politics and Translational Institutions www.edu-factory.org