Between 'Here-Now' and 'There-Then': The West and Asia's Colonial Entanglements in International Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Chatterjee, Soma; Barber, Kathryn
Titel	Between 'Here-Now' and 'There-Then': The West and Asia's Colonial Entanglements in International Higher Education
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 81 (2021) 2, S.221-239 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-020-00538-x
Schlagwörter	International Education; Comparative Education; Cross Cultural Studies; Educational Policy; Educational History; Ideology; Western Civilization; Commercialization; Economic Climate; Asians; Trend Analysis; Postcolonialism; Social Differences; Criticism; Social Systems; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; United States; Canada; United Kingdom; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ideologie; Wirtschaftslage; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Trendanalyse; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Sozialer Unterschied; Kritik; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; USA; Kanada; Großbritannien; Australien
Abstract	Drawing on a review of international higher education (IHE) policies, priorities, and literature from the USA, Canada, Australia, and the UK over the course of a 16-year period (2000-2016), this article identifies a strong scholarly and policy preoccupation with the urgency of the global knowledge economy and cognate discourses of 'Asia Pacific century', an emerging economic and geopolitical configuration that is considered threatening to the historic and ideological Western superiority in IHE relations. As such, the export commodification and transnationalization of higher education of the last decade is conceptualized as Western responses to an increasingly Asia-driven global economic order. This, we suggest, is an analytical lens which approaches time--as in knowledge economic time--and space--as in the West and Asia--in rather absolute, contained, and hierarchized terms, overlooking how both the West's coming to terms with postcolonial Asia, and the postcolonial Asian states' desire for Western knowledge and modernity re-cast broader transnational inequities established by colonial practices. In contrast, the concept of 'spacetime entanglement' is proposed to develop a necessary analysis as well as a critique of the transnationalization of capitalist colonial relations via discourses and practices of contemporary IHE. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01