Isaac A Kamola

Making the World Global

U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004172
• ISBN-10: 1478004177
• Artikelnr.: 53602600

Autorenporträt

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction: Globalization and the World  1
Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary
1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of
Modernization as a National Imaginary  29
2. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and
the National Development Imaginary  62
Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary
3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market
Imaginary  83
4. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global
Imaginary  118
Part III. Reproducing the Global University
5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth
Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies  141
6. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World:
John Sexton and the Global Networked University  168
Conclusion: Reworlding the Global  189
Notes  195
References  231
Index  269