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Heralding A Push For Higher Education To Adopt A More Global Perspective, The Term Globalizing Knowledge Is Today A Popular Catchphrase Among Academics And Their Circles. The Complications And Consequences Of This Desire For Greater Worldliness, However, Are Rarely Considered Critically. In This Groundbreaking Cultural-political Sociology Of Knowledge And Change, Michael D. Kennedy Rearticulates Questions, Approaches, And Case Studies To Clarify Intellectuals' And Institutions' Responsibilities In A World Defined By Transformation And Crisis. Globalizing Knowledge Introduces The Stakes Of Globalizing Knowledge Before Examining How Intellectuals And Their Institutions And Networks Shape And Are Shaped By Globalization And World-historical Events From 2001 Through The Uprisings Of 2011-13. But Kennedy Is Not Only Concerned With Elaborating How Wisdom Is Maintained And Transmitted, He Also Asks How We Can Recognize Both Interconnectedness And Inequalities, And Possibilities For More Knowledgeable Change Within And Beyond Academic Circles. Subsequent Chapters Are Devoted To Issues Of Public Engagement, The Importance Of Recognizing Difference And The Local's Implication In The Global,

Author

Michael D. Kennedy

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804793438

Subjects

Philosophy, Education, Sociology