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Reterritorializing the global knowledge economy: an analysis of geopolitical assemblages of higher education
Author(s) -
MOISIO SAMI,
KANGAS ANNI
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/glob.12103
Subject(s) - geopolitics , subjectification , assemblage (archaeology) , citizenship , knowledge economy , political science , set (abstract data type) , sociology , geography , politics , computer science , law , programming language , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
In this article, we analyse the geopolitics of higher education, which we understand as an assemblage through which the functioning of the ‘borderless’ and ‘deterritorializing’ dynamics of the global knowledge economy are respatialized. Discourses, objects and bodies constitute a geopolitical assemblage. We scrutinize in particular the geopolitical discourse of the knowledge economy, the construction of material and immaterial learning environments as one of its governmental technologies as well as the subjectification of individuals as specific kinds of professional citizens. We concretize this with an enquiry into the set of recent university reforms in Finland and the ways in which these contribute to the formation of transnational citizenship.