Kölbel, Andrea; Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna; Thieme, Susan (eds.) (2022). Universities as Transformative Social Spaces. Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192865571.001.0001
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The realm of higher education, much like everything else in a global and mobile world, has rapidly altered in the last few decades. More and more universities and seats of higher education are using strategies towards' 'internationalization'; by increasing heterogeneity in rank, student composition, resource endowments, faculty profiles, and their social spaces. The essays in this volume take a critical look at universities across South Asia, more specifically, at the dynamics of student mobility and mobilizations existing in such localized social spaces, and compares these with their counterparts in universities across the world. While elite universities in South Asia, as elsewhere, have been caught in a stiff international competition and are aspiring for the highest ranks, students from the most excluded communities and remote parts of the country seek entry to badly endowed universities, facing obstacles during their courses, and upon seeking entry into employment. The volume evaluates such universities as spaces for mobility opportunity and mobilizations in a globally networked world. It combines local and international perspectives with thorough observations of the dynamics in localized university spaces while embedding them in transnational processes.
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Book (Edited Volume) |
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08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability > Unit Critical Sustainability Studies (CSS) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography |
UniBE Contributor: |
Thieme, Susan |
Subjects: |
900 History > 910 Geography & travel |
ISBN: |
978-0-19-286557-1 |
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Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anja Elisabeth Ruckstuhl |
Date Deposited: |
08 Jun 2022 14:28 |
Last Modified: |
31 Aug 2023 13:04 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1093/oso/9780192865571.001.0001 |
Additional Information: |
If access to the book or certain chapters is wished, please contact the editors. |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170177 |
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