1st Edition
World Yearbook of Education 2026 The Shifting Geopolitics of Higher Education: Knowledge, Power, Protest
Introduction
Katja Brøgger, Hannah Moscovitz, Susan L. Robertson & Jenny J. Lee
Part I. Governing Higher Education Knowledges and Spaces
1. The changing dynamics of space and scale: The university between nationalism and globalism
Simon Marginson
2. Academic Freedom, Openness, and the Shifting Geopolitics of European Higher Education
Katja Brøgger & Dorota Dakowska
3. Unravelling the Missing Geopolitical Dimension in Latin American Universities
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela
4. Confronting Colonialism and Mobilizing Reparations in Higher Education
Sharon Stein & Vanessa Andreotti
5. Perforated Nations, Universities, and the Zonal Politics of Knowledge Production
Susan L. Robertson, Chris Muellerleile, Jian Wu & Kris Olds
6. Universities in Exile: A Conceptual Framework
Kyle A. Long & Carly O’Connell
7. Generative AI and the Next Phase of the Platform University
Mark Carrigan & J.J. Sylvia IV
Part II. Sites and Strategies of Domination and Resistance
8. Students Revolt, State Revenge: Universities and Authoritarianism in Iran
Shahrzad Mojab & Mahdi Ganjavi
9. Reclaiming Knowledge, Rebuilding University: Higher Education against War and Repression in Autonomous Northeast Syria/Rojava
Sardar Saadi
10. Translocal Articulations in Student Activism for Social Justice: Resonances Across the World
Gritt B. Nielsen & Thierry M. Luescher
11. Illiberal politics and threats against academic freedom
Andrea Pető, Alina Dragolea & Bogdan Florian
12. Critical Thinking and Solidarity Dilemmas in Global Higher Education: an Autoethnographic Perspective on Academics in the Context of Transnational Conflicts
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko
13. Crusading Against an “Immoral Academy”: The State, Universities and the National Fantasy
Rasmus Harsbo & Ester Zangrandi
14. Internationalizing Higher Education, Nation Branding, and Geopolitical Anomalies: Scotland and Northern Cyprus in Perspective
Théotime Chabre & Hannah Moscovitz
15. Academic diaspora and the rise of transnational repression in international higher education
Annette Bamberger
Biography
Katja Brøgger is Associate Professor and Research Program Director at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Hannah Moscovitz is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Susan L. Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Bye-Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Jenny J. Lee is Vice President and Dean of Arizona International at the University of Arizona, and Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education.
