This volume analyzes the history and character of the modern university from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with particular emphasis on the constitutive significance of geography as a factor shaping the internal and external dynamics of universities and the national and international systems of higher education in which they have operated. In considering the geographies of the university, the essays in this volume deploy two interlinked conceptual approaches derived from Manuel Castells's (1996) formulations of the spatial logics that he claims constitute the essential characteristics of past and present societies: the space of places and the space of flows. The first approach adopts a placed-based perspective and focuses on the spatial organization of the settings, practices, and ideologies that constitute the key functions of contemporary universities at different geographical scales, including their research, teaching, and learning, as well as their administration, enterprise, and public engagement. The second, flow-based approach addresses the wider networks that constitute universities as seats of research, learning, and expertise. It encompasses, for example, their recruitment of students, academic staff, and other employees; their outgoing and incoming mobilities of people, resources, and knowledges; their conferment of degrees and awards; their formal and informal collaboration in research, teaching, management, enterprise, and public engagement; and their local, regional, national, and international impacts.Research on universities has a long tradition in several disciplines. Geographical research about universities came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s as higher
Knowledge and SpaceThis book series entitled "Knowledge and Space" is dedicated to topics dealing with the production, dissemination, spatial distribution, and application of knowledge. Recent work on the spatial dimension of knowledge, education, and science; learning organizations; and creative milieus has underlined the importance of spatial disparities and local contexts in the creation, legitimation, diffusion, and application of new knowledge. These studies have shown that spatial disparities in knowledge and creativity are not short-term transitional events but rather a fundamental structural element of society and the economy.The volumes in the series on Knowledge and Space cover a broad range of topics relevant to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences focusing on knowledge, intellectual capital, and human capital: clashes of knowledge; milieus of creativity; geographies of science; cultural memories; knowledge and the economy; learning organizations; knowledge and power; ethnic and cultural dimensions of knowledge; knowledge and action; and the spatial mobility of knowledge. These topics are analyzed and discussed by scholars from a range of disciplines, schools of thought, and academic cultures. Knowledge and Space is the outcome of an agreement concluded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and Springer in 2006More information about this series at
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