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dc.contributor.authorSørensen, Knut H.
dc.contributor.authorTraweek, Sharon
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T13:49:25Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T13:49:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211126_9781000528930_10
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51582
dc.description.abstractUnlike 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.otherSociology
dc.titleQuesting Excellence in Academia
dc.title.alternativeA Tale of Two Universities
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429290633
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isbn9781000528930
oapen.relation.isbn9780367259334
oapen.relation.isbn9780429290633
oapen.relation.isbn9781032152677
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.series.number1
oapen.pages236
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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