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Teach for Arabia - American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Paperback)
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Teach for Arabia - American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Paperback)
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Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences
of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar.
Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American
universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion
dollar investment over the last two decades in growing a local
knowledge-based economy. Though leaders have eagerly welcomed these
institutions, not all citizens embrace the U.S. universities in
their midst. Some critics see them as emblematic of a turn away
from traditional values toward Westernization. Qatari students who
attend these schools often feel stereotyped and segregated within
their spaces. Neha Vora considers how American branch campuses
influence notions of identity and citizenship among both citizen
and non-citizen residents and contribute to national imaginings of
the future and a transnational Qatar. Looking beyond the branch
campus, she also confronts mythologies of liberal and illiberal
peoples, places, and ideologies that have developed around these
universities. Supporters and detractors alike of branch campuses
have long ignored the imperial histories of American universities
and the exclusions and inequalities that continue to animate daily
academic life. From the vantage point of Qatar, Teach for Arabia
challenges the assumed mantle of liberalism in Western institutions
and illuminates how people can contribute to decolonized university
life and knowledge production.
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