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Globalizing knowledge : intellectuals, universities, and publics in transformation / Michael D. Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804793445
  • 0804793441
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Globalizing knowledge : intellectuals, universities, and publics in transformation.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/2 23
LOC classification:
  • HM651 .K454 2015eb
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Contents:
Knowledge : articulation and consequence in global transformations -- Responsibility : intellectuals in worldly theory and practice -- Legitimations : knowledge institutions and universities of the world -- Engagements : knowledgeable publics -- Difference : recognizing global contexts -- Connectivity : understanding global flows -- Design : knowledge networks in transformation -- Framing : cosmopolitan intellectuality and consequential solidarity -- 11 theses on globalizing knowledge.
Summary: Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term ""globalizing knowledge"" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however, are rarely considered critically. In this groundbreaking cultural-political sociology of knowledge and change, Michael D. Kennedy rearticulates questions, approaches, and case studies to clarify intellectuals' and institutions' responsibilities in a world defined by transformation and crisis. Globalizing Knowledge introduces the stakes of g
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge : articulation and consequence in global transformations -- Responsibility : intellectuals in worldly theory and practice -- Legitimations : knowledge institutions and universities of the world -- Engagements : knowledgeable publics -- Difference : recognizing global contexts -- Connectivity : understanding global flows -- Design : knowledge networks in transformation -- Framing : cosmopolitan intellectuality and consequential solidarity -- 11 theses on globalizing knowledge.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2014).

Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global perspective, the term ""globalizing knowledge"" is today a popular catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however, are rarely considered critically. In this groundbreaking cultural-political sociology of knowledge and change, Michael D. Kennedy rearticulates questions, approaches, and case studies to clarify intellectuals' and institutions' responsibilities in a world defined by transformation and crisis. Globalizing Knowledge introduces the stakes of g

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