Questing Excellence in Academia

<p>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.</p><p>Differently situated in global political economies both are ambitious prosperous campuses. The book refl exively examines their disturbing disputes about quality competition and innovation. It argues that some academic bureaucratic and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia society industry and government while addressing the world’s immediate challenges: power inequities and sustainability.</p><p>It shows the important strategic work of domesticating co- morphing and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students faculty society members and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fi elds of higher education studies critical university studies and critical public infrastructure studies plus science technology and society studies.</p><p><em>The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</em></p>