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Castells in Africa Universities and Development
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Castells in Africa [electronic resource] : Universities and Development / edited by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete & François van Schalkwyk.
ISBN
1920677933
9781920677930
9781920677923
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 248 pages))
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Summary
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university's function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. Includes two previously unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.
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Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 African Studies.
Project MUSE - 2018 Higher Education.
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English
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February 08, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.
Contents
section 1. Framing Castells in Africa
1. Castells in South Africa
2. Universities and the 'new society'
section 2. Castells in South Africa
3. Universities as dynamic systems of contradictory functions
4. The role of universities in development, the economy and society
5. Rethinking development in the global information age
section 3. Putting Castells to work in Africa
6. Roles of universities and the African context
7. Universities and economic development in Africa
8. Research universities in Africa?
9. African universities and connectedness in the information age
10 Contradictory functions, unexpected outcomes, new challenges
Afterword 2017 / by Manuel Castells.
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