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[Commlist] Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge - Open Access Edited Book

Fri Feb 18 11:57:27 GMT 2022





Members of the listserv might be interested in an open access edited book that engages with issues of media and mediatization.

Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge (Open Access Book) <http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78483>

For many institutions, to ignore your university’s ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship, or engagement with communities offered by a university. Drawing on a range of research and inquiry-based methods, /Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge/ exposes how universities became servants to the education industry and its impact.

Conceptually unique in its scope, /Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge/ addresses the lack of empirical research behind university and journal ranking systems. Chapters from internationally recognized scholars in decolonial studies provide readers with robust frameworks to understand the intersections of coloniality and Indigeneity and how they play out in higher education. Contributions from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts explore the political economy of rankings within the contexts of the Global North and South, and examine alternatives to media-driven rankings. This book allows readers to consider the intersections of power and knowledge within the wider contexts of politics, culture, and the economy, to explore how assumptions about gender, social class, sexuality, and race underpin the meanings attached to rankings, and to imagine a future that confronts and challenges cognitive, environmental, and social injustice.

Reviews

"In this well-crafted volume, Michelle Stack has assembled a team of writers who provide a nuanced analysis of the politics of university rankings which have a bearing on funding, jobs, the survival of programs, and the marketability of universities. It also addresses important work such as university–community engagement. In its comprehensiveness, this book is an eye-opener. "

*Peter Mayo, Professor of Arts, Open Communities, and Adult Education, University of Malta, and author of Higher Education in a Globalising World: Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning*

"This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of rankings by moving the conversation goalposts beyond the methodological issues that have dominated the literature and commentary heretofore. Instead, and from an international perspective, the authors offer the reader a much deeper analysis about how knowledge is produced, measured, and used – and the implications this has for higher education, the academic community, and research. The interplay between these different elements underpins the geopolitics of knowledge production and political power."

*Ellen Hazelkorn, Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education, and Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin*

"Insightfully critical and nuanced, this important collection explores the far-reaching implications and impact of the global university rankings industry. Contributors note that rankings are not simply the ‘new normal’ of higher education; they are dramatically transforming the enterprise that they purport to measure."

*Glen A. Jones, Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto*

It can also be purchased through the University of Toronto Press.

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