Global university rankings and the politics of knowledge /

"For many institutions, to ignore your university's ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding and talent. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship or engagement with communities offered by a university. Drawing o...

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Other Authors: Stack, Michelle, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • International University Rankings as Cultural Imperialism: Implications for the Global South / Marion Lloyd and Imanol Ordorika
  • Unfolding National Approaches to University Rankings in Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America / Creso M. Sá, Nadiia Kachynska, Emma Sabzalieva, and Magdalena Martinez
  • Global University Rankings' Visual Media, Cartography, and Geopolitics of Knowledge / Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle Estera, and Vivek Vellanki
  • Academic Culture in Transition: Measuring Up for What in Taiwan? / Chuing Prudence Chou
  • What Counts in Research? Dysfunction in Knowledge Creation and Moving Beyond / Heather Morrison
  • Marginalizing the Marginalized: How Rankings Fail the Global South / Ralf St. Clair
  • Between Local Distinction and Global Reputation: University Rankings and Changing Employment in Japan / Mayumi Ishikawa
  • Rankings as Surveillance Assemblage / Gary R.S. Barron
  • Motivation and Well-Being of Faculty and Graduate Students: Empirical Relations with University Rankings / Nathan C. Hall
  • Beyond Rankings and Impact Factors / Michelle Stack and André Elias Mazawi.