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This highly original book provides an engaging and critical
introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a
potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few
people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas
and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much
more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and
those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift,
libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge
economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of
exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes
the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings
it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from
sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the
benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies,
this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge
economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it
has been authored by internationally respected authors and its
conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it
its wide appeal.
In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in
which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by
researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global
imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and
'become' differently in a world of research increasingly governed
by rampant reductionist rationality. To support this view there
follows a series of detailed interviews with some of the world's
leading intellectuals where the editors explore what it might mean
to globalize the research imagination. The interviewees, Arjun
Appadurai, Raewyn Connell, Doreen Massey, Aihwa Ong, Fazal Rizvi
and Saskia Sassen, are foremost in their research fields and their
views related here are both influential and inspirational. This
thought-provoking book for students and researchers identifies and
critically interrogates the various ways in which globalization
reshapes research investigates the challenges that globalization
poses for the social sciences and humanities creates an
understanding of how globalization is transforming the practice of
research and doctoral research training Progressive researchers in
the social sciences and humanities urgently need to decide for
themselves how best to globalize research methodologies and
communities, and this book will be an invaluable resource for them.
In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in
which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by
researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global
imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and
'become' differently in a world of research increasingly governed
by rampant reductionist rationality. To support this view there
follows a series of detailed interviews with some of the world's
leading intellectuals where the editors explore what it might mean
to globalize the research imagination. The interviewees, Arjun
Appadurai, Raewyn Connell, Doreen Massey, Aihwa Ong, Fazal Rizvi
and Saskia Sassen, are foremost in their research fields and their
views related here are both influential and inspirational. This
thought-provoking book for students and researchers identifies and
critically interrogates the various ways in which globalization
reshapes research investigates the challenges that globalization
poses for the social sciences and humanities creates an
understanding of how globalization is transforming the practice of
research and doctoral research training Progressive researchers in
the social sciences and humanities urgently need to decide for
themselves how best to globalize research methodologies and
communities, and this book will be an invaluable resource for them.
This highly original book provides an engaging and critical
introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a
potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few
people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas
and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much
more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and
those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift,
libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge
economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of
exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes
the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings
it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from
sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the
benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies,
this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge
economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it
has been authored by internationally respected authors and its
conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it
its wide appeal.
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG
Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book
Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par
excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous
performances as they stage and restage changing relations of
ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to
shifting historical conditions and cultural tastes. In multiple
theatres, they now regularly rehearse the irregular art of being
global. Elite schools around the world are positioned at the
intersecting pinnacles of various scales, systems and regimes of
social, cultural, political and economic power. They have much in
common but are also diverse. They illustrate how various modalities
of power are enjoyed and put to work and how educational and social
inequalities are shaped and shifted. They, thus, speak to the
social zeitgeist. This book dissects this intricate choreography.
This book charts new territory both theoretically and
methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall's notion of social
aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through
a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to
the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from
Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to
both broaden and critique MacDougall's original concept. They argue
that within these elite schools there is a relationship between
their 'complex sensory and aesthetic environments' and the
construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates.
Understanding the importance of the visual to ethnography, the
social aesthetics of these elite schools are captured through the
inclusion of a series of visual essays that complement the written
accounts of the aesthetics of privilege. The collection also
includes a series of vignettes that further explore the sensory
dimension of these aesthetics: touch, taste-though metaphorically
understood- sight and sound. These varying formats illustrate the
aesthetic nature of social relations and the various ways in which
class permeates the senses. The images from across the different
schools and their surroundings immerse the reader in these worlds
and provide poignant ethnographic data of the forces of
globalisation within the context of elite schooling.
This book charts new territory both theoretically and
methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall's notion of social
aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through
a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to
the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from
Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to
both broaden and critique MacDougall's original concept. They argue
that within these elite schools there is a relationship between
their 'complex sensory and aesthetic environments' and the
construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates.
Understanding the importance of the visual to ethnography, the
social aesthetics of these elite schools are captured through the
inclusion of a series of visual essays that complement the written
accounts of the aesthetics of privilege. The collection also
includes a series of vignettes that further explore the sensory
dimension of these aesthetics: touch, taste-though metaphorically
understood- sight and sound. These varying formats illustrate the
aesthetic nature of social relations and the various ways in which
class permeates the senses. The images from across the different
schools and their surroundings immerse the reader in these worlds
and provide poignant ethnographic data of the forces of
globalisation within the context of elite schooling.
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG
Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book
Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par
excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous
performances as they stage and restage changing relations of
ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to
shifting historical conditions and cultural tastes. In multiple
theatres, they now regularly rehearse the irregular art of being
global. Elite schools around the world are positioned at the
intersecting pinnacles of various scales, systems and regimes of
social, cultural, political and economic power. They have much in
common but are also diverse. They illustrate how various modalities
of power are enjoyed and put to work and how educational and social
inequalities are shaped and shifted. They, thus, speak to the
social zeitgeist. This book dissects this intricate choreography.
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