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
- : Hardback
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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