Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities

by Sharon Traweek, Knut H Srensen, Knut H. Sørensen

Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California.

Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book refl...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367259338
• ISBN13: 9780367259334
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"