Global Regionalisms and Higher Education

Edited by Susan L. Robertson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, Kris Olds, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, Roger Dale, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK and Que Anh Dang, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK

'This is an outstanding book that brings sharp analytical focus to the regionalisation of higher education rather than subsuming it under the broader rubric of transnational education. It brings a critical perspective to regional higher education that understand it as political and cultural projects - albeit contested - that produce new cartographies of higher education governance. It asks: who drives these projects, what interest do they serve, who are the governed and the governors in these systems of governance. This is essential reading for any interested in the future of higher education.' --Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia'Regional supra-national organizations such as the European Union, NAFTA and ASEAN are not only integrated through formal agreements between member states. As this collection of studies of higher education convincingly shows, the knowledge-based services economy fueling much global economic growth is becoming dependent on higher-education collaborative projects at the regional scale. These projects transcends the bounds of the state-to-state compacts as such and point to the increasingly regional future of this entire sector.' --John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles'In an age of complex multilateralism, regionalist strategies and regionalisation, processes need to feature much more prominently in academic research literatures. Global Regionalisms and Higher Education is exemplary in its understanding of this key point. It provides a comprehensive, lucid, illuminating and engaging study of the diverse ways in which education systems, policies and politics are embroiled in processes of region-building, and their significance for theory and practice. Significantly enriching our understanding of what it means to 'regionalise' education, Robertson et al have delivered what deserves to be recognised as a turning point in the sociology of globalisation, regional integration, social policy and education.' --Nicola Yeates, The Open University, UK

• Contents:Introduction Global Regionalisms and Higher Education Susan L. Robertson, Roger Dale, Kris Olds and Que Anh Dang1. Higher Education, The EU, and the Cultural Political Economy of Regionalism Susan L. Robertson, Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo and Roger Dale2. Different Regionalisms, One European Higher Education Regionalization: The Case of the Bologna ProcessSusana Melo3. Erasmus Mundus and the EU: Intrinsic Sectoral Regionalism in Higher EducationRoger Dale4. Inter-regional Higher Education Arena: The Transposition of European Instruments in Africa Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché and Oana Marina Panait5. Harmonization of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Regionalism: Politics First, and then EducationMorshidi Sirat, Norzaini Azman and Aishah Abu Bakar6. Changing Higher Education Discourse in the Making of the ASEAN RegionRoger Y. Chao Jr.7. Shaping an ASEM (Higher) Education Area: Hybrid Sectoral Regionalism from WithinQue Anh Dang8. Ir-Regular Regionalism? China’s Borderlands and ASEAN Higher Education: Trapped in the PrismAnthony Welch9. Good Friends and Faceless Partners: Educational Cooperation for Community Building in the Barents Region Marit Sundet10. Transregionalism and the Caribbean Higher Educational SpaceTavis D. Jules11. MERCOSUR, Regulatory Regionalism and Contesting Projects of Higher Education GovernanceDaniela Perrotta12. South-South Development Cooperation and the Socio-Spatial Reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean Regionalisms: University Education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’Thomas Muhr13. Higher Education and New Regionalism in Latin America: The UNILA ProjectPaulino Motter and Luis Armando Gandin14. Regionalization, Higher Education and the Gulf Cooperation CouncilTahani AljafariIndex