Universities as Transformative Social Spaces - Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2022
Editors:	Andrea Kolbel (Research Fellow) • Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Full Professor) • Susan Thieme (Professor, Critical Sustainability Studies)
Dimensions:	223 x 145 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-286557-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN:	0-19-286557-9
Barcode:	9780192865571

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