Higher Education Activities in World Cities: A Spatial Study of Global Leadership and Connectivity

Chow, Alice S.Y.; Loo, Becky P.Y.

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1736-0_5

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“…Nevertheless, as the global HE landscape is gradually becoming more multi-centered due to the escalating competitiveness of HEIs in some locations in the Global South, we need to pay closer attention to the interrelationship between HEIs and the politico-economic settings which they are most intimately connected to (instead of considering the general North-South difference only) to reach a more thorough and contextualized understanding of HEI neoliberalization. Therefore, cities, which serve as bases of ‘universities, research institutions, scholars, and students’ and ‘nodes of knowledge concentration in the multi-centered geography of higher education’ may be more suitable units of investigation for research on globalized neoliberal HEIs (Chow and Loo, 2017: 93).…”

Section: Globalizing Neoliberal Governmentality Over Heis: Changes Hi...mentioning

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Branding devices in place: Neoliberal academic event posters in a Hong Kong university

Huang

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Operating as a hegemonic, market-driven governmentality, neoliberalism has been colonizing academic institutions and academic professionals’ everyday lives globally. This article demonstrates how several sets of academic event posters displayed at a public Hong Kong university work as spatialized multimodal branding devices that discursively entangle certain types of individuals, activities, institutions, and political economy under a specific mode of neoliberal governmentality. It shows that the posters position the university and its academic units as internationally competitive, Global-North-oriented knowledge enterprises in a mutually shaping relationship with a globalized neoliberal political economy par excellence in Asia. The study signals the need for research on neoliberal academic discourses to pay closer attention to the spatialized, multi-semiotic nature of discursive practices and the multi-layered institutional, politico-economic and cultural contexts in which the neoliberal discourses are situated.

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Branding devices in place: Neoliberal academic event posters in a Hong Kong university

Huang

2022

Discourse & Communication

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“…The position of cities in the global urban hierarchy has been found to be associated with a range of city‐level outcomes (Smith & Timberlake, 2002), with research revealing how it impacts urban education (Chow & Loo, 2017), economic inequality (Hu, 2021) and migration outcomes (Sanderson et al., 2015). Social network analysis of global cities of the sort prescribed by Smith and Timberlake (1995, 2002) has expanded to study global urban systems beyond the purely economic, measuring the ties comprising city government participation in global governance initiatives, and exploring its relationship to the world city hierarchy.…”

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Divergence of the world city system from national economies

2022

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This study shows that the position of cities in the world economy has diverged from national economies. Using data from 2016, we evaluate a network of 12,802 cities formed by the location decisions of 24,355 firms in terms of their point centrality, and show that the inter-city and inter-national systems have measurably decoupled, disrupting the previouslyobserved pattern in which the most powerful cities in the world city system were located in core countries, "mid-level" cities were in the semi-periphery,and the least powerful cities were in peripheral countries. Our findings support predictions that globalizing cities would diverge from national economies and that globalization would generate a new global geography that transects long-standing cleavages in the world system.

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Critical Reflections on Mainland China and Taiwan Overseas Returnees’ Job Searches and Career Development Experiences in the Rising Trend of Anti-globalisation

Xiong¹,

Mok²

2020

High Educ Policy

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Higher Education Activities in World Cities: A Spatial Study of Global Leadership and Connectivity

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Branding devices in place: Neoliberal academic event posters in a Hong Kong university

Branding devices in place: Neoliberal academic event posters in a Hong Kong university

Divergence of the world city system from national economies

Critical Reflections on Mainland China and Taiwan Overseas Returnees’ Job Searches and Career Development Experiences in the Rising Trend of Anti-globalisation

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