The shifting geopolitics of higher education: Inter/nationalizing elite universities in Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and beyond

Koch, Natalie

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.06.014

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“…Across a wide range of disciplines, many researchers have examined various forms and configurations of illiberal/authoritarian/post-authoritarian and neoliberal power relations (Brown, 2003(Brown, , 2006Canterbury, 2005;Dahi & Munif, 2012;Giroux, 2004;Ismail, 2011;Koch, 2014Koch, , 2016Koch, , 2017Martin, 2007;Springer, 2009aSpringer, , 2009bWatts, 2004). In particular, the term 'authoritarian neoliberalism' has recently been used by scholars to highlight how state force is deployed with neoliberalism, despite neoliberalism's claims of shrinking the state (Bruff, 2014(Bruff, , 2016(Bruff, , 2017Kaygusuz, 2018;Tansel, 2017).…”

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When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

Lim

Sziarto

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This paper investigates infectious disease mismanagement as a way of understanding the mixture of neoliberal and illiberal governance in public health. While acknowledging the significant role of neoliberalization in public health, we call for tracing geographies of illiberalism in relation to various actors, and through various scales and processes of governance, such as private power and state absence. Through a case study of the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) throughout South Korea in 2015, this research demonstrates how neoliberal transformations in public health and illiberal practices of disease management allowed a severe outbreak of MERS, while being of benefit to a few private actors. In the MERS response, state absence via non-response such as cover-ups and censorship exacerbated state violence such as drastic quarantine and othering. Further, the South Korean government-chaebol nexus has profoundly privatized both disease management and public health, as well as intensified the responsibilization of individuals. By explaining how illiberal and neoliberal processes and particular actors came to matter in politics of infectious diseases in Korea, this paper contributes to the sociopolitical understanding of infectious diseases and public health in a mixture of authoritarianism and neoliberalism.

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“…since the 1990s, it has still employed authoritarian politics and practices such as censorship, government-enterprise bonds and so on. Viewed in this way, the terminology of illiberalism highlights the need to beware the easy dichotomization of labelling states (Koch, 2014(Koch, , 2017.…”

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When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

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Sziarto

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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“…Mäkinen 2014). From an assemblage perspective, it designates the envisioned and materialized higher education learning environments that function as apparatuses of governance, namely those that normalize and naturalize certain representations of economy and society (Koch 2014). A key aspect in the assemblage of geopolitics of higher education is subject formation.…”

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Reterritorializing the global knowledge economy: an analysis of geopolitical assemblages of higher education

Moisio

Kangas

2016

Global Networks

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In this article, we analyse the geopolitics of higher education, which we understand as an assemblage through which the functioning of the 'borderless' and 'deterritorializing' dynamics of the global knowledge economy are respatialized. Discourses, objects and bodies constitute a geopolitical assemblage. We scrutinize in particular the geopolitical discourse of the knowledge economy, the construction of material and immaterial learning environments as one of its governmental technologies as well as the subjectification of individuals as specific kinds of professional citizens. We concretize this with an enquiry into the set of recent university reforms in Finland and the ways in which these contribute to the formation of transnational citizenship.

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“…This is due to a significant number of state orders, allocated to them and the hopes of potential entrants to receive a high-quality education, which, in their opinion, is better than in the regions. Koch stated (Koch, 2014) that over the past few years, a course of geopolitics of higher education in Kazakhstan aims to create elite national universities.…”

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Higher education in Kazakhstan in terms of the Bologna process: Problems, solutions

Amangeldyevich

Sovetov

Mirzamukhambetovna

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After signing the Bologna Declaration, Kazakhstan has committed itself to reform the higher educational system. The authors draw an analogy with the system of higher education in the Soviet time, demonstrate and analyze the strategy for the reform of education in Kazakhstan. Considering the performance and results of a fundamental restructuring of education, the authors rely on statistical information, think critically about the main vectors of educational trajectories, identify problems and suggest solutions. According to the authors, the Kazakhstan system of education can get a new level using the best practices of the previous system, and at the same time continuing to introduce innovative principles of the Bologna Declaration.

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The shifting geopolitics of higher education: Inter/nationalizing elite universities in Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and beyond

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

Reterritorializing the global knowledge economy: an analysis of geopolitical assemblages of higher education

Higher education in Kazakhstan in terms of the Bologna process: Problems, solutions

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