Global Creation: Space, Mobility, and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

by Marginson, Simon; Murphy, Peter; Peters, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9781433105272
• ISBN10: 1433105276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

This lively and original book changes the way we see globalization and the knowledge economy. Creativity, exchange and the open flow of ideas have long shaped states, economies and everyday life. But knowledge now has an extraordinary dynamism. The world is crisscrossed by traffic in people, data and images. A world society is emerging, though governance is yet to reflect this. Global Creation shows that global creativity is transforming in two ways. First, global synchrony and convergence are changing the conception, production and sharing of creative work and this is feeding back into the core sturctures of the social world. Second, the global dimension is itself a human product and one that is continually being created. This book explores acts of imagining, producing and regulating the global dimension of action in the past, present and future. It will interest all intelligent readers, particularly those engaged with the history of ideas, political economy, sociology, innovation, or business organization. It follows Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peters, Marginson, Murphy, 2009). also published by Peter Lang

"As policymakers turn increasingly to issues of creativity and innovation in seeking the sources of value in the global knowledge society, this superb book provides fertile ground for thinkers of all kinds."---Roger King, Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, Open University, United Kingdom

"This is the best attempt so for to interrogate the global dimension of higher education. It is thought-provoking and directed to the key points, with an air of enchantment."---Rui Yang, Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, China

"Marginson, Murphy and Peters have created a tour de force on globalization. The authors perform a narrative high wire act for the readers, and we come away thrilled, wanting more."---Willam G. Tierney, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Author Biography

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia, He Works on higher education polcy, globalization, and comparative and international education. His books include The Enterprise Univesity (with Mark Considine, 2000) and International Student Security (with Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir and Helen Forbes-Mewett, 2010)
Peter Murphy is Associate Professor of Communications at Monash University, Australia. His books include Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (2001) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (With David Roberts, 2004). He is coordinating editor of the international critical theory and historical sociology journal Thesis Eleven
Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests focus broadly on education, philosophy and social theory. His books include Building Knowledge Cultures (with Tina Besley, 2006), Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (with Tina Besley, 2007) and Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher (with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers, 2008). He edits Educational Philosophy and Theory and e-journals Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning.