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Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes

Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society

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  1. Per-Anders Forstorp

    1. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  2. Ulf Mellström

    1. Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

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  • Examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education
  • Explores the educational landscapes of individual and institutional actors using eduscapes
  • Argues that visions of a global knowledge society need to be put into perspectives beyond ethnocentrism

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education (PSGHE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Knowledge Society as Ideology and Practice

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 1-16

  3. Key Concepts and Themes

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 17-60

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

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 61-82

  5. Roots and Routes: Transnational Families and Global Horizons

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 83-104

  6. Transnational Educational Mobility and the Power of English

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 105-132

  7. The Gender Politics of Eduscapes

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 133-155

  8. The European Union as Eduscape

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 157-194

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

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 195-241

  10. Going Global: How to Kickstart a Global HEI

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 243-274

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

    • Per-Anders Forstorp, Ulf Mellström
    Pages 275-296

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 297-319
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Per-Anders Forstorp

  • Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

    Ulf Mellström

About the authors

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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