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9780192865571

Universities as Transformative Social Spaces Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives

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    9780192865571

  • ISBN10:

    0192865579

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-10-31
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Andrea Kolbel, Research Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit), Berlin, Germany,Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Full Professor, Bielefeld University,Susan Thieme, Professor, Critical Sustainability Studies, University of Bern

Andrea Kölbel, DPhil (Oxon.), is a social and economic scientist with a specific interest in the changing nature of higher education, spatial (im)mobilities, social theory, and participative research methods. She holds a doctorate in human geography from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the
Central European University in Budapest. With her research into young people's lives and social inequalities, she builds upon her professional experiences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programmes on behalf of universities, ministries of education and research, and the
UN Refugee Agency in countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.


Susan Thieme is Professor of Geography and Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She holds a PhD and Habilitation (professorial thesis) from the University of Zurich and studied at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Plymouth, UK. She was Visiting Fellow at the
University of Sussex, UK, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, and the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. Her research interests are transformation and sustainability, (im)mobilities, and in/justices in the context of education and work.

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is professor of social anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Until July 2019, she was Senate member of the German Research Foundation, Dean of her Faculty and Co-Director of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research, ZIF. Her research focuses
currently on knowledge production and circulation, on belonging as well as on the social life of universities (especially the nexus of inequality and heterogeneity). She studied at the University of Zurich where she worked for many years as academic collaborator. She then shifted to the Centre for
Development Studies at the University of Bonn where she acted as Senior Research Fellow, as Deputy Director, and as Acting Director.

Table of Contents


Introduction
Section I: Mobilities
1. Global Visions, National Students: Narratives of 'Elsewhere' in Nepal's National Eductation Policy, Uma Pradhan
2. The Challenge of Mastering One's Own Future Students' Negotiations of Mobility in Meghalaya, Northeast India, Dhruv Raina and Surinder S. Jodhka
3. Untold Stories of International Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Claudia Baumann
4. Building Bridges: Narratives From and About Educational Consultants as Mediators in Transnational Student Mobility, Sazana Jayadeva and Susan Thieme
5. Between Knowledge, Activism, and the Global Market: International Students at the Islamic University (DarulUloom) Deoboard and the International Islamic University in Pakistan and India, Dietrich Reetz
Section II: Mobilizations
6. Transforming Universities: Student Activism, Caste, and Politics in North India, Satendra Kumar
7. Another Kind of Beating: On the Complexitiess of Political Violence in Everyday Student Politics in Bangladesh, Julian Kuttig
8. Deserted Universities Campuses, Social Mobilization and Identity Politics in Nepal, Reidun Faye and Andrea Kölbel
9. Transnational Political Engagements and Diasporic Connections in Nepali Education-related Migration to Denmark, Karen Valentin

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