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Universities are social spaces where diverse personal trajectories connect, confront each other, and/or run parallel to each other. This book captures dynamic transformations in the realm of higher education from South Asian perspectives.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Section I: Mobilities
- 1: Uma Pradhan: Global Visions, National Students: Narratives of 'Elsewhere' in Nepal's National Eductation Policy
- 2: Dhruv Raina and Surinder S. Jodhka: The Challenge of Mastering One's Own Future Students' Negotiations of Mobility in Meghalaya, Northeast India
- 3: Claudia Baumann: Untold Stories of International Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 4: Sazana Jayadeva and Susan Thieme: Building Bridges: Narratives From and About Educational Consultants as Mediators in Transnational Student Mobility
- 5: Dietrich Reetz: Between Knowledge, Activism, and the Global Market: International Students at the Islamic University (DarulUloom) Deoboard and the International Islamic University in Pakistan and India
- Section II: Mobilizations
- 6: Satendra Kumar: Transforming Universities: Student Activism, Caste, and Politics in North India
- 7: Julian Kuttig: Another Kind of Beating: On the Complexitiess of Political Violence in Everyday Student Politics in Bangladesh
- 8: Reidun Faye and Andrea Kölbel: Deserted Universities Campuses, Social Mobilization and Identity Politics in Nepal
- 9: Karen Valentin: Transnational Political Engagements and Diasporic Connections in Nepali Education-related Migration to Denmark
About the author
Andrea Kölbel, DPhil (Oxon.), is a social and economic scientist with a specific interest in the changing nature of higher education, spatial (im)mobilities, social theory, and participative research methods. She holds a doctorate in human geography from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the Central European University in Budapest. With her research into young people's lives and social inequalities, she builds upon her professional experiences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programmes on behalf of universities, ministries of education and research, and the UN Refugee Agency in countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
Susan Thieme is Professor of Geography and Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She holds a PhD and Habilitation (professorial thesis) from the University of Zurich and studied at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Plymouth, UK. She was Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, and the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. Her research interests are transformation and sustainability, (im)mobilities, and in/justices in the context of education and work.
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is professor of social anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Until July 2019, she was Senate member of the German Research Foundation, Dean of her Faculty and Co-Director of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research, ZIF. Her research focuses currently on knowledge production and circulation, on belonging as well as on the social life of universities (especially the nexus of inequality and heterogeneity). She studied at the University of Zurich where she worked for many years as academic collaborator. She then shifted to the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bonn where she acted as Senior Research Fellow, as Deputy Director, and as Acting Director.
Summary
Universities are social spaces where diverse personal trajectories connect, confront each other, and/or run parallel to each other. This book captures dynamic transformations in the realm of higher education from South Asian perspectives.
