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From: Chiara Martucci <chiara.martucci@???>
Date: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Subject: [[CPR]] I: Edufactory Call for Papers
To: coordinamento diversamentestrutturat* <
coordinamento.precari.ricerca@???>
ciao. segnalo qs CfP.
buonday!
k
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Da: *Barbara Biglia *<barbara.biglia@???>
Data: 16/dic/10 12:25:01
Oggetto: Edufactory Call for Papers
Hi all,
a friend co-coordinating that issue on Universities Transformation
asked me to circulate the call, I think it might be of your interest.
Please also circulate this call widely. (But please take of my e-mail)
hola guapas,
una amiga que esta co-coordinando este interesante numero sobre las
trasformaciones de la universidad (en las que serán seguramente bienvenidos
artículos sobre las movilizaciones estudiantiles) me ha pedido de distribuir
la call. Así que os la paso por si es de vuestro interés o pensáis
interesante reenviarla a vuestros contactos. Porfa quitar mi mail de los
reenvios.
Besos, Kisses, Baci, Petons Barbara
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http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/
EDUFACTORY CALL FOR PAPERS
TRANSFORMING UNIVERSITIES: Measure, Transition, Institution
http://tinyurl.com/2dkmf8u
Deadline for submissions is: 15 January 2011.
Please send submissions to:
to: n.puwar@???, thejonnyroach@???, raunig@???
'The old institutions are crumbling ...' - so began the introduction to
the zero issue of Edufactory Journal on the double crisis of the
university and the global economy. Paradoxically, one of the conditions
of this double crisis is the global expansion of the university. The old
institutions are crumbling but they are simultaneously trying to
reinvent themselves, to transplant themselves, to network themselves.
This issue of the Edufactory Journal will investigate two faces of this
situation. The first section entitled 'Occupations' will examine the
global transition of higher education with a focus on new institutions
being established in different parts of the world. The second section
entitled 'Anomalies' will focus on struggles against the 'system of
measure' that presides over the transition of universities. As the
overall ambition of the issue is to understand the connection between
the globalization of higher education and the imposition of measure, we
also welcome contributions that critically analyse the connections
between these processes.
'Occupations' will examine the proliferation of new universities. Not
only do we witness the founding of online universities but also the
massive expansion of the education market in countries such as India,
China, Egypt and Brazil. New knowledge spaces are being established in
special economic zones and new kinds of partnerships, consortia and
divisions of labour are being forged between higher education
institutions across the world. The opening of offshore branch campuses
accompanies the establishment of new kinds of private institutions and
the forging of international university chains or networks under
different corporate banners and branding techniques. With these
developments appear new transnational forms of institutional governance,
new kinds of trade relations, and new kinds of connections between
universities and societies. There also arise new knowledge practices and
conflicts as institutions negotiate their structures with regard to
disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and the 'conflict of the faculties'.
The topic of 'new universities' is related to the question of
transition. On one hand, we wish to enquire into the meaning and models
of transition in concrete cases - for example, in the post-soviet world.
On the other hand, if the concept of transition implies a
non-historicist narration, we can also approach it as a space of
possibility: that is to say, the permanent transition of capitalism also
signals the possibility of new kinds of political thought and action.
How do we read this possibility alongside the imperative to innovation,
constant variation and adaptation that animates the globalization of
higher education? And how do these changes produce new kinds of
subjectivities and struggles in the production of knowledge?
There is a strict connection between the pressures on universities to
produce innovation and adapt to change and the 'system of measure' that
drives the emergent forms of higher education. The 'Anomalies' section
will critically examine this 'system of measure', the struggles against
it and efforts to invent alternatives to it. By the 'system of measure'
we refer to an assemblage of techniques for quantifying, standardizing,
counting, ranking, benchmarking and rigidly assigning value to academic
production and labour . Peer review is an important element of the
'system of measure' as is the construction of university rankings, the
calculation of economic impacts, the introduction of workload formulas,
the conduct of research audits, the use of performance indicators and
the deployment of metrics. These technologies not only quantify and
hierarchize the field of higher education to ever higher degrees but
they also seek to homogenize and individualize the production of living
knowledge. Furthermore, they are key drivers in processes of
institutional restructuring and the drawing of business plans for
establishment of new higher education institutions. Struggles against
the axing of academic programs or tuition fee hikes are directly
struggles against the system of measure. This section of the journal
will investigate such struggles as well as practices that thwart the
'system of measure' through protest, resistance and the invention of
alternatives.
The Edufactory Journal is a venue for experimentation with alternative
forms of intellectual production that emphasize cooperation,
self-organization and the refusal of measure. The journal embodies these
principles in its processes and methods and not only its end products.
We welcome contributions from authors who address the questions
surrounding the global transition of higher education and/or take a
critical approach to the 'system of measure'. Articles that tackle both
of these tasks are especially welcome. All submissions must confirm to
the style guide published on the journal's
site:
http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic
le&id=379. They will be collectively read by the editorial board in an
open and collaborative manner.
Deadline for submissions is: 15 January 2011. Please send submissions
to: n.puwar@???, thejonnyroach@??? and raunig@???.
Topics that this issue may explore include:
* Role of world regionalism in transition of higher education
* Transnational linkages and establishment of offshore campuses of
North American, European and Australian institutions
* South-south expansion of offshoring and branch campuses
* New universities in the post-soviet world
* Role of the business school model in the founding of new
universities
* Knowledge practices, interdisciplinarity and the division of the
disciplines in new universities
* Online institutions
* Shared knowledge and open courseware (or the critique of it) in
the transition of higher education
* New educational spaces (zoning technologies, higher education
areas, architecture of new institutions, etc.)
* International students, academics and border control
* New students and new subjectivities
* Initiatives in autoformazione
* Critique of the 'system of measure' and alternatives to it
* How to start a global autonomous university
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