Universities in translation : the mental labor of globalization
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Universities in translation : the mental labor of globalization
（Traces : a multilingual journal of cultural theory and translation, 5）
Hong Kong University Press, c2010
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Essays analyze the global movement to "reform" and standardize higher education as a translation of disciplinary technologies of new managerialism from business and industry to the university.
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Statement of Purpose List of Editors Contributors Introduction - Brett de Bary By Way of a Preface, Whither Intellectuals? (Seoul, Moscow) A Presentiment of the Death of Intellectuals in Korean Society - Goh Byeong-Gwon translated from Korean by Lee Seok-Won) Humanities Across the Borders: A View from the Periphery - Helen PetrovskyPart 1: University Reform and Its Ironies: Globalization as Rhetoric (Giessen, Tokyo, Merida, Paris, Shanghai) 1. Academic Capitalism: Toward a Global Free Trade Zone in University Services - Helmut Dubiel (translated from German by Eric Savoth) 2. The Oxymoron of Higher Education: Neoliberal Restructuring and the Incorporation of Japanese National Universities - Iwasaki Minoru (translated from Japanese by Gavin Walker) 3. The Accountologist: An Emerging Form of Anthropological Life in Mexican Universities - Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz 4. Of Forms and Re-forms in French Higher Education: The Ecole normale superieure - Laurent Dubreuil From Elitism to Populism: The "Industrial" Model and Chinese Higher Education - Lei QiLi (translated from Chinese by Ma Hongnan)Part 2: University Reform and Bildung: Subjective Technologies, Language, and Colonial Legacies (Singapore, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul) 5. Once Again, Reinventing Culture: Singapore and "Globalized" Education - C. J. W.-L. Wee 6. Redefining "Liberal Education" in the Chinese University - Cao Li 7. Articulation, Not Translation: Knowledge-Production in an Age of Globalization - Ding-tzann Lii 8. On English as a Chinese Language: Implementing Globalization - Meaghan Morris 9. The "Age" of the University in Asia - Ukai Satoshi 10. Neoliberal University Reform and the International Exchange of Intellectuals - Kang Nae-hui (translated from Korean by Kang Nae-hui and Lee Seok-Won)Part 3: Thought and Resistance (New York, Boulder, Cambridge, Ithaca, Aberdeen) 11. The University Without Wall: Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Israel Studies - Gil Anidjar 12. How Many Ward Churchills: Organizing Against Racism, Empire, and the Neoconservative Assault on the University - Daniel Won-gu Kim 13. Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons - Andrew Jewett 14. The Discourse of the University: Modern and Postmodern - Eric Cheyfitz 15. Faculty Governance in the "University of Excellence": Comments - Risa Lieberwitz 16. The Conditions of Theory - Alberto Moreiras Part 4: The University and the Emancipatory Project: Limits and Possibilities (Paris, Ithaca, Providence, Merida, Seoul) 17. Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers - Yann Moulier Boutang (translated from French by Philippe Bonin) 18. Cognitive Capitalism and Its Discontents -Dominick LaCapra 19. Comment on Yann Moulier Boutang's "Cognitive Capitalism and Education: New Frontiers" - Naoki Sakai 20. Imagined Networks: Digital Media, Race, and the University - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 21. Very Much a Midnight Child: Software and the Translation of Times at the University - Gabriela Vargas-Cetina 22. How an "Intellectual Commune" Organizes Movement: A Brief Report on the Experiment "Research Space Suyu+Nomo" - Ko Mi-Sook (translated from Korean by Lee Seok-Won) 23. Traces Editors Recommend... The Edu-Factory Machine: Transnational Politics and Translational Institutions www.edu-factory.org
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