Seeing the World (eBook)

How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

Mitchell Stevens, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Seteney Shami (Autoren)

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2018
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8796-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in international scholarship, the most prestigious academic departments still favor research and expertise on the United States. Why? Seeing the World answers this question by examining university research centers that focus on the Middle East and related regional area studies.Drawing on candid interviews with scores of top scholars and university leaders to understand how international inquiry is perceived and valued inside the academy, Seeing the World explains how intense competition for tenure-line appointments encourages faculty to pursue "e;American"e; projects that are most likely to garner professional advancement. At the same time, constrained by tight budgets at home, university leaders eagerly court patrons and clients worldwide but have a hard time getting departmental faculty to join the program. Together these dynamics shape how scholarship about the rest of the world evolves.At once a work-and-occupations study of scholarly disciplines, an essay on the formal organization of knowledge, and an inquiry into the fate of area studies, Seeing the World is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of knowledge in a global era.

Autor

Mitchell L. Stevens is associate professor of education at Stanford University. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is associate professor of education and sociology at American University. Seteney Shami is a program director at the Social Science Research Council and founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus. 3 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 9/11 • academic department • Academic tenure • americans • andrew abbott • Ann Swidler • Archive • Area Studies • Area Studies Centers • Career • Central Asia • Cold War • Counter-Insurgency • C. P. Snow • Craig Calhoun • credential • Curriculum • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • Economics • economist • Edward Said • Eurasia • Faculty (academic staff) • Faculty (division) • Financial endowment • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Funding • Geopolitics • Global Affairs • Global Governance • Globalization • Governance • government agency • Graduate school • Harvard University • Harvard University Press • highbrow • higher education • Higher education in the United States • Homeschooling • Immanuel Wallerstein • Institution • Interdisciplinarity • International affairs • internationalism • International Relations • International Studies • Joint Venture • Jonathan Friedman • Knowledge Economy • Latin America • Law School • Lecture • Lisa Anderson • master's degree • medical school • Middle Eastern Studies • Middle East studies • Modernity • Modernization Theory • National interest • national security • nation state • neil gross • New Nation (United States) • New York University • Organizational Structure • oriental civiliations • Orientalism • Oriental Studies • Outreach • Peer Review • philanthropy • Political Science • private university • Profession • Professional association • Professional School • Program on the Middle East and North Africa • Project Camelot • Public university • Qualitative research • Research Program • Russia • Russian Studies • Scholarship • school of education • Scientism • Scientist • Self-Governance • Seminar • Seymour Martin Lipset • Social Movement • Social Science • Social science research • Social Science Research Council • Society • Sociology • South Asia • study abroad programs • Subsidy • Technology • Thesis • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • University and college admission • University of Chicago Press • US academy • US Foreign Policy • Wealth • world affairs • World Regions • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8796-8 / 1400887968
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8796-5 / 9781400887965