Europe as Infrastructure: Networking the Operative Community

Opitz, Sven; Tellmann, Ute

doi:10.1215/00382876-2831356

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“…12). The combination of this image and text reinforces the association between language and countries or regions (viz., Catalan is included as a regional language), while the selective range of languages additionally shows how the platform includes as well as excludes specific regions in the European imaginary (Opitz & Tellmann, 2015). This establishes an ambiguous spatiotemporal formation that marks a difference between what it means to be 'in' Europe, 'in' a European field of online education and 'on' EMMA, making it possible to be included and at the same time excluded through multiple boundary systems ( Fig.…”

Section: European Topologiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Linguistic bridges Another European topology comes forward in relations between the EMMA team, the providing universities and partners, thus excluding the EC. This topology operates around a particular structure that connects these associates over their geographical, cultural and linguistic localities and makes them act as a collective (Opitz & Tellmann, 2015). Central in the practices is the English language which, although appearing on the interface as well, has a specific operation in practices beyond the interface.…”

Section: Beyond-interface: Competing Comparing Translatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding openness through (in)visible platform boundaries: a topological study on MOOCs as multiplexes of spaces and times

Oudeweetering

Decuypère

2019

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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Among new technologies in education, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is one of the phenomena that received much attention. However, controversy developed around the meaning of the word 'open' as integrated in the acronym. Despite the disagreements, studies on MOOCs generally do not formulate clear conceptual or operational descriptions of what openness implies for their research. Without explicating these descriptions, it becomes impossible for HE practitioners and researchers to gain a sense of how the proclaimed open nature of MOOCs is and can be realized in practice. This study aims to respond to this debate and the prevailing ambiguity and confusion around the concept 'openness' by examining the relevance of an alternative view. That is, through the lens of social topology, this study considers how openness is enacted in multiple forms that interact. The study further examines whether and how openness is performed through the specific way in which boundaries operate. Based on an empirical case study on a MOOC platform developed and administered by several European universities, the study presents a combination of descriptions, sketches and legends that describe multiple spaces and times of openness in the MOOC platform. The study therewith provides strong arguments for the pertinence of this alternative view, and invites further research on higher education initiatives to examine the various yet specific ways openness can be established.

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Section: European Topologiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Beyond-interface: Competing Comparing Translatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding openness through (in)visible platform boundaries: a topological study on MOOCs as multiplexes of spaces and times

Oudeweetering

Decuypère

2019

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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“…The notion of 'infrastructural geopolitics' could be one way of rendering visible the technical/financial battleground of global geopolitics. Such an approach draws attention to a depoliticized geopolitics that does not operate through grand ideological claims, but that builds political community through infrastructural dis/ connections (Opitz and Tellmann, 2015). It builds on thinkers, like Mukerji (2010: 404), who argue that infrastructural projects 'use the material world' to 'shape the conditions of possibility for collective life'.…”

Section: Orcid Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years

Salter¹,

Cohn²,

Neal³

et al. 2019

Security Dialogue

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What is changing? This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it. That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and concentrations of wealth; it has gotten us to the brink of climate catastrophe, ecosystem collapse, and a vast, literally unimaginable intensification and expansion of human immiseration and suffering. So what is changing in security (if not in security studies, critical or otherwise) is everything-from the entire context of stable planetary ecosystems that gave rise to the way our world is politically, economically and socially structured, to our understandings of those structures, and to our models and theories of what constitutes security within them, be it state security or human security. We can no longer claim to be thinking about security unless we address the model that conceives the purpose of economic activity as ever-increasing 'efficiencies' of extraction, exploitation and consumption of nature's resources, and of human labour, both paid and unpaid, for the purpose of profit-rather than, for example, conceiving the purpose of economic activity as meeting human needs for a decent and dignified life, and ensuring the sustainability of the resources and ecosystems on which life depends. Consider just these few snapshots of what that model has produced: How is it possible to talk about 'security' while ignoring them/without centring them? 862912S DI0010.1177/0967010619862912Security DialogueSalter (ed.) et al. Horizon scan-commentaries article-Commentary2019 Salter (ed.) et al. Horizon scan-commentaries References NASA Science (n.d.

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“…Infrastructures are «the nervous system» (Opitz and Tellmann, 2015) of economy and society. The role they played in the formation of the modern nation-state has been widely analysed.…”

Section: The Materialization Of the European Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The European Logistics Space: On Jean Monnet and the Integration of Europe

Frapporti

2019

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This article aims to investigate a different genealogical line of European integration. Through a partial use of the biography of Jean Monnet, I aim to expand the temporal borders of the path often outlined by European integration history, taking advantage of an analytical tool that is rarely used in this context: logistics. On the one hand, I propose to make the Schuman Declaration resonant with a broader “European past”. On the other hand, my aim is to show that some categories of the global present also pervade the process of continental integration. All in all, this path reveals that the latter process was originally developed to build what I call the “European Logistics Space”.

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Europe as Infrastructure: Networking the Operative Community

Cited by 121 publications

References 25 publications

Understanding openness through (in)visible platform boundaries: a topological study on MOOCs as multiplexes of spaces and times

Understanding openness through (in)visible platform boundaries: a topological study on MOOCs as multiplexes of spaces and times

Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years

The European Logistics Space: On Jean Monnet and the Integration of Europe

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