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Is the University Universal? Mobile (Re)Constitutions of A merican Academia in the G ulf A rab S tates
Author(s) -
Vora Neha
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12085
Subject(s) - parochialism , ethnography , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , consciousness , sociology , political science , gender studies , social science , media studies , anthropology , law , politics , philosophy , physics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , acoustics , computer science
Through ethnographic examples of students' engagement with American universities in the U nited A rab E mirates and Q atar, I argue that branch campuses have a particularly important relationship with emerging forms of racial consciousness, identity, and politicization among students, both citizen and foreign resident. This entry point is one that deliberately foregrounds the parochialism of an A merican perspective on the future of the academy as part of a broader project of postcolonial and transnational engagement with this new knowledge economy.