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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Isaac A. KamolaPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781478004738ISBN 10: 1478004738 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 07 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Globalization and the World 1 Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary 1. ""Creative Imagination"" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary 29 2. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary 62 Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary 3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary 83 4. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary 118 Part III. Reproducing the Global University 5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have ""Reform"" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies 141 6. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University 168 Conclusion: Reworlding the Global 189 Notes 195 References 231 Index 269"ReviewsMaking the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its e?ects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of new conditions of academic knowledge production, [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet. -- Rafael Khachaturian * Perspectives on Politics * [Making the World Global] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together.... -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni * International Politics Reviews * Making the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its e?ects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of new conditions of academic knowledge production, [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet. -- Rafael Khachaturian * Perspectives on Politics * Making the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its e?ects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of new conditions of academic knowledge production, [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet. -- Rafael Khachaturian * Perspectives on Politics * [Making the World Global] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together.... -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni * International Politics Reviews * Making the World Global merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples. -- Paul A. Kramer * Reviews in American History * Author InformationIsaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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