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Questing Excellence in Academia

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.

Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book reflexively 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 worlds immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability.

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 fields of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies.

Knut H. Srensen is Professor Emeritus at NTNU, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Centre for Technology and Society. His academic work has spanned many areas of study, including climate and energy studies, feminist technoscience, and interdisciplinarity.

Sharon Traweek is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and holds the Bernal Prize for her distinguished contributions to Science, Technology, and Society studies. She conducts research and teaches about knowledge making practices among anthropologists, astronomers, historians, and physicists in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.

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Questing Excellence in Academia
A Tale of Two Universities
Knut H. Srensen and Sharon Traweek

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Questing Excellence in Academia

A Tale of Two Universities

Knut H. Srensen
and Sharon Traweek

First published 2022

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2022 Knut H. Srensen and Sharon Traweek

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ISBN: 978-0-367-25933-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-15267-7 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-29063-3 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429290633

Typeset in Times New Roman

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Navigating Universities, University Studies, and This Book
   1. Introduction
   2. Disciplining Universities to Provide Public Goods
   3. Universities, the Public Good, and Their Quests for Excellence
   4. Navigating the Field of University Studies
   5. Reconfiguring University Studies
   6. Homeward Bound: Engaging Ethnographically with Universities
   7. Questing, Resisting, and Re-morphing Excellence
   8. Intervening
   9. Locating Two Universities
      1. NTNU
      2. UCLA
   10. A Brief Outline of This Book
3. Disciplining Universities: Performance Metrics, Policy Reforms, and Reputations
   1. Introduction
   2. Distinctions: The Role of National Governments in Governing Universities and the New Metric Managerial Models for Universities
   3. Corporatizing and Bureaucratizing Are Not in Opposition
   4. Building University Reputations: Branding and Ranking
      1. Branding as a Strategy for Building a Distinctive Reputation
      2. University Ranking Systems
   5. Presences and Absences: Features of the Political Economies of NTNU and UCLA
      1. NTNU a Bureaucratizing University with Government Presence
      2. UCLA a Corporatizing University
   6. Conclusion: The Co-morphing of Metrics and Excellence
4. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality
   1. Introduction
   2. Universities as Hierarchies
   3. Extramural Circulation
   4. Academic Freedom, Autonomy, and Epistemic Politics
   5. Transformations: Growth, Democracy, and Resilience
   6. Corporatizing and Bureaucratizing as Circumscriptions of Academic Life
   7. Decision making with Factions
   8. Factions, Conflicts, and Receivership
   9. Factions and Pawa Hara
   10. Enactments of and Limits to Academic Freedom
   11. Academic Autonomy and the Regime of Meritocracy
   12. Academic Citizenship as Legitimizing Academic Freedom
   13. Epistemic Politics and Collegial Relations
   14. Conclusion
5. Subject Formation and Re-formation Throughout Academic Careers: The Double Bind of Disciplined Entrepreneurs
   1. Introduction
   2. Entrepreneurship in Academia
   3. Subject Formation in Academia
   4. Becoming Academics in the US: Disciplined and Entrepreneurial Epistemic Choices Sharons Account
      1. Strategic Choices: Place and Pace
      2. Applying to Graduate Schools in the US: Strategically Selecting Reputations

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