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Perforated Nations, Universities, and the Zonal Politics of Knowledge Production

Susan L. Robertson, Christopher Muellerleile Orcid Logo, Jian Wu, Kris Olds

Geo-Politics of Higher Education, World Yearbook 2025

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A common assumption regarding universities is that they can be mapped onto what Quinn Slobodian (2023: 2) describes, as a “jigsaw of nations” which in turn make up a coherent global system. Yet as he and others (see Sassen 2006) point out, capitalism has always worked by “punching holes in the terri...

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Published: Abingdon on Thames Routledge 2024
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