Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Knowledge Society as Ideology and Practice

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   Pages 1-16

3. Key Concepts and Themes

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   Pages 17-60

4. The Empirical Complexity of Knowledge Society: Material and Methodological Framework

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   Pages 61-82

5. Roots and Routes: Transnational Families and Global Horizons

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   Pages 83-104

6. Transnational Educational Mobility and the Power of English

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   Pages 105-132

7. The Gender Politics of Eduscapes

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   Pages 133-155

8. The European Union as Eduscape

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   Pages 157-194

9. Becoming an Exporter of Higher Education: Positioning Sweden as a Knowledge Nation

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   Pages 195-241

10. Going Global: How to Kickstart a Global HEI

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    Pages 243-274

11. Conclusion and Discussion: Toward a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society

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    Pages 275-296

12. Back Matter

    Pages 297-319

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This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings. Using eduscapes as its most important concept, this book explores the educational landscapes of individual as well as institutional actors; particularly the agential aspects of how global eduscapes are imagined, experienced, negotiated and constructed. In addition, the authors highlight the critical potential of anthropology, using this perspective as a resource for cultural critique where the Western experience and assumed ‘ownership’ of the global knowledge economy will be put into question. This comprehensive book will appeal to students and scholars of educational policy, the sociology of education and the globalization of education.

• anthropology
• education
• globalization
• higher education
• social science

• Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  Per-Anders Forstorp

• Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

  Ulf Mellström

Per-Anders Forstorp is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests center around methods and theories exploring a range of phenomena associated with knowledge production and education. 
Ulf Mellström is Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a social anthropologist; and has been the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Masculinity Studies since 2006. 

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