Laboratories of Liberalism: American Higher Education in the Arabian Peninsula and the Discursive Production of Authoritarianism

Autor/inn/en	Koch, Natalie; Vora, Neha
Titel	Laboratories of Liberalism: American Higher Education in the Arabian Peninsula and the Discursive Production of Authoritarianism
Quelle	In: Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 57 (2019) 4, S.549-564 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Koch, Natalie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695
DOI	10.1007/s11024-019-09382-5
Schlagwörter	Authoritarianism; Global Approach; North Americans; Universities; Partnerships in Education; Arabs; Knowledge Economy; Higher Education; Social Systems; Political Attitudes; Neoliberalism; Multicampus Colleges; Power Structure; Social Differences; Equal Education; Liberal Arts; Foreign Countries; Educational Cooperation; International Cooperation; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autoritarismus; Globales Denken; University; Universität; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Arab; Araber; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Social system; Soziales System; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Sozialer Unterschied; Ausland; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Asien
Abstract	American university globalization has increasingly targeted and been courted by authoritarian states. While the reasons for these partnerships are manifold--including the ease of top-down large-scale monetary investment, "knowledge economy" development strategies, social engineering programs, and other corporate and imperial entanglements--an overwhelming discourse has emerged around higher education initiatives in places like the Arabian Peninsula, China, Singapore, and Central Asia that juxtaposes liberalism (in the form of higher education) with the illiberal, authoritarian contexts it is supposedly encountering within the framework of neoliberal globalization. Through a discussion of American branch campuses in Qatar and the UAE, this article traces a more complex web of actors whose interests may include neoliberal and imperial inclinations but are not reducible to them. By focusing on the discursive framings of these branch campus initiatives, we show how the notion of "liberal education" operates as a global discourse of power through American branch campuses in the Arabian Peninsula and, by extension, other nondemocratic states around the world. Specifically, we argue that the very concept of "authoritarianism" is discursively produced in and through these university projects, and simultaneously builds (upon) an idealized narrative about the national self in the United States that erases existing and emerging inequalities--indeed, authoritarianisms--within the home spaces of American academia. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01