Universities and the Public Sphere : Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization

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Universities and the Public Sphere Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments 1 Introduction and Overview of the Book 2 The “Public” Contribution of Universities in an Increasingly Global World 3 Power and Authority in the Creation of a Public Sphere Through Higher Education 4 The Global Sorting Machine: An Examination of Neoracism Among International Students and Postdoctoral Researchers 5 Reconsidering the Realities of the International Student Market: A Perspective from Japan and East Asia 6 University Rankings, Global Models, and Emerging Hegemony: Critical Analysis from Japan 7 The Corporatization of National Universities in Finland 8 Negotiating Race and Gender Identity in the Knowledge Age: The Case of South African Universities 9 The Broken Promise of Neoliberal Restructuring of South African Higher Education 10 Higher Education and the Public Sphere in Angola 11 Selling Out Academia? Higher Education, Economic Crises, and Freire’s Generative Themes 12 Post-Neoliberalism: The Professional Identity of Faculty Off the Tenure Track 13 The Chameleon’s Agenda: Entrepreneurial Adaptation of Private Higher Education in Mexico List of Contributors Index