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Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities book cover

1st Edition

Questing Excellence in Academia A Tale of Two Universities

By Knut H. Sørensen, Sharon Traweek Copyright 2022
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are... Read more
1. Navigating Universities, University Studies, and this Book

2. Disciplining Universities: Performance Metrics, Policy Reforms and Reputations

3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality

4. Subject Formation and Re-formation throughout Academic Careers: The Double Bind of Disciplined Entrepreneurs

5. The Meshworking University: The Traffic in Knowledge through Teaching, innovation, and Interdisciplinarity Practices

6. Conclusion: Questing a Sustainable University

Biography

Knut H. Sørensen is Professor Emeritus at NTNU, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Centre for Technology and Society. His academic work has spanned many areas of study, including climate and energy studies, feminist technoscience, and interdisciplinarity.

Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and holds the Bernal Prize for her distinguished contributions to Science, Technology, and Society studies. She conducts research and teaches about knowledge making practices among anthropologists, astronomers, historians, and physicists in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.

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