Call for Papers
Panel: Higher education and transnational academic hierarchies:
anthropological work in/on the academic periphery
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4113>
(cfp closes at midnight GMT on February 15th, 2016)
14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/index.shtml>
Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department
of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca
20-23 July, 2016
*Panel convenors*Ivo Syndicus (Maynooth University):
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Mariya Ivancheva (University College Dublin) : [log in to unmask]
*Short Abstract*
This panel seeks to explore trends, changes, and reforms in higher
education sectors outside the traditional centres of transnational academic
hierarchies, and our own movement and roles as anthropologists in various
capacities along these hierarchies.
*Long Abstract*
An increasing body of work addresses the ongoing 'corporatisation' and
'commodification' of universities, and higher education sector reforms more
broadly. Mostly, however, this work refers to contexts that may be
considered as the traditional centres for models of higher education, and
home to the world's leading and most prestigious universities. In this
panel we seek to bring together work relating to contemporary trends and
changes in higher education from the perspective of more 'peripheral'
locations in the global university landscape, including our own movement as
anthropologists between these locations. We ask, preferably
ethnographically:
• How are recent trends in higher education in, for example, the US,
Europe, or Australia, experienced and responded to in higher education
sectors elsewhere?
• How is the translation of putatively global trends, emanating from the
world's traditional academic powerhouses, into local sector reforms
challenged and resisted, or perhaps met with alternative trajectories
altogether?
• How does the legacy of colonialism, and potentially lasting links of
bilateral cooperation or political antagonism, make itself visible in
contemporary changes in higher education sectors and the day to day of
academic activities in post-colonial settings?
• What are our own roles or experiences as anthropologists moving between
such different settings, be that as ethnographic fieldworkers, scholars,
research students, or academic consultants?
• What is our own predicament in the global flow of academic labour along
such lines, including in terms of navigating a potentially fraught relation
between building a personal academic career and inadvertently reinforcing
imperial hierarchies of academic practice and knowledge production?
To propose a paper, please follow this link
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4113> and submit
through the online system on the site. For any inquiries, please do not
hesitate to email the two panel convenors.
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M.
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