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Following World War II the American government and philanthropic
foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites
for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct
nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s,
visions of the world made popular within area studies and
international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and
educational policies that originated in business schools and
international financial institutions. Academics within these
institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market
and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the
1990s, American universities embraced this language of
globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing
logic of higher education. In Making the World Global Isaac A.
Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the
American state, philanthropic organizations, and international
financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible
to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for
International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the
Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that
how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material
relations within which knowledge is produced.
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic
foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites
for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct
nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s,
visions of the world made popular within area studies and
international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and
educational policies that originated in business schools and
international financial institutions. Academics within these
institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market
and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the
1990s, American universities embraced this language of
globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing
logic of higher education. In Making the World Global Isaac A.
Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the
American state, philanthropic organizations, and international
financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible
to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for
International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the
Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that
how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material
relations within which knowledge is produced.
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to
critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the
state for the purpose of national and human liberation. This volume
collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in
Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution connects the historical
period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination
of what constitutes the anticolonial archive. The volume considers
archive in a Derridean sense, as always in the process of being
constructed such that the assessment of the African anticolonial
archive is one that involves a contemporary process of curating.
The essays in this volume, as well as the volume itself, enact
different ways of curating material from this period. The project
reflects an approach to documents, arguments, and materials that
can be considered "international relations" and "world politics,"
but in ways that that intentionally leaves them unhinged from these
disciplinary meanings. While we examine many of the same questions
that have been asked within area studies, African studies, and
International Relations, we do so through an alternative archive.
In doing so, we challenge the assumption that Africa is solely the
domain of policy makers and area studies, and African peoples as
the objects of data
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to
critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the
state for the purpose of national and human liberation. This volume
collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in
Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution connects the historical
period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination
of what constitutes the anticolonial archive. The volume considers
archive in a Derridean sense, as always in the process of being
constructed such that the assessment of the African anticolonial
archive is one that involves a contemporary process of curating.
The essays in this volume, as well as the volume itself, enact
different ways of curating material from this period. The project
reflects an approach to documents, arguments, and materials that
can be considered "international relations" and "world politics,"
but in ways that that intentionally leaves them unhinged from these
disciplinary meanings. While we examine many of the same questions
that have been asked within area studies, African studies, and
International Relations, we do so through an alternative archive.
In doing so, we challenge the assumption that Africa is solely the
domain of policy makers and area studies, and African peoples as
the objects of data
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