Knowledge Worlds : Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University 9780231548571, 9780231189835, 9780231189828

Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University 9780231548571, 0231548575

What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United

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Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University 0231189826, 9780231189828

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld.

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Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University 9780231548571

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld.

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Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt 9781108423472, 9781108526142

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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making 9781800411470

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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making 9781800411487

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic

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Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period 9781487544966

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.

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The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World 9781474215725, 9781845202484, 9781845202491

We constantly hear about ‘the consumer’. The ‘consumer’ has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic

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Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge 9781487545154

Analysing rankings in diverse higher education settings, this book draws on discourse analysis, theory, ethnography, and

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The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University [1 ed.] 9780253007711

A critique of male-dominated modes of language use, their roots in higher education, their effects, and their spill over

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