Questing excellence in academia : a tale of two universities /
Sørensen, Knut H.,
Questing excellence in academia : a tale of two universities / Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in science, technology and society .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book reflexively examines their disturbing disputes about quality, competition, and innovation. It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world's immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability. It shows the important, strategic work of domesticating, co-morphing, and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students, faculty, society members, and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies"--
Knut H. Sørensen is Professor Emeritus at NTNU, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Centre for Technology and Society. His academic work has spanned many areas of study, including climate and energy studies, feminist technoscience, and interdisciplinarity. Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and holds the Bernal Prize for her distinguished contributions to Science, Technology, and Society studies. She conducts research and teaches about knowledge making practices among anthropologists, astronomers, historians, and physicists in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.
9780429290633 0429290632 9781000529043 1000529045 1000528936 9781000528930
9780429290633 Taylor & Francis
2021037668
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet--Administration.
University of California, Los Angeles--Administration.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.
University of California, Los Angeles.
Universities and colleges--Administration.--Norway
Universities and colleges--Administration.--United States
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Norway.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
Management.
Universities and colleges--Administration.
Norway.
United States.
Electronic books.
LB2341.8.N8
378.481
Questing excellence in academia : a tale of two universities / Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in science, technology and society .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book reflexively examines their disturbing disputes about quality, competition, and innovation. It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world's immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability. It shows the important, strategic work of domesticating, co-morphing, and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students, faculty, society members, and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies"--
Knut H. Sørensen is Professor Emeritus at NTNU, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Centre for Technology and Society. His academic work has spanned many areas of study, including climate and energy studies, feminist technoscience, and interdisciplinarity. Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and holds the Bernal Prize for her distinguished contributions to Science, Technology, and Society studies. She conducts research and teaches about knowledge making practices among anthropologists, astronomers, historians, and physicists in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.
9780429290633 0429290632 9781000529043 1000529045 1000528936 9781000528930
9780429290633 Taylor & Francis
2021037668
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet--Administration.
University of California, Los Angeles--Administration.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.
University of California, Los Angeles.
Universities and colleges--Administration.--Norway
Universities and colleges--Administration.--United States
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Norway.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
Management.
Universities and colleges--Administration.
Norway.
United States.
Electronic books.
LB2341.8.N8
378.481