Internationalization of Higher Education: An Analysis Through Spatial, Network, and Mobilities Theories

By Marianne Larsen

Book Overview

This book provides a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades. Drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network, and mobilities theories, the book shifts our thinking away from linear, binary, Western accounts of internationalization to understand the complex, multi-centered and contradictory ways in which internationalization processes have played out across a wide variety of higher education landscapes worldwide. The author explores transnational student, scholar, knowledge, program and provider mobilities; the production of mobile bodies, knowledges, and identities; the significance of place in internationalization; and the crucial role that global university rankings play in reshaping the spatial landscape of higher education.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137533447
• ISBN13: 9781137533449
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"