Publisher: African Minds Publishers, South Africa
Pages: 258
Year: 2017
Category: African Studies, Development Studies, Education & Teaching, Social & Political Aspects, Social Sciences
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
Castells in Africa
Universities and Development
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects
the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa,
and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also
publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display
the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework,
and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on
universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to
this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university
in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides
the university’s function not only remains, but is more important than
ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his
work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students,
reflective practitioners and researchers. Includes two previously
unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.
£30.00 – £32.00
About the editors
Nico Cloete is the director of the Centre for Higher Education Trust (CHET) in South Africa. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Oslo, and extraordinary professor in the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP) at Stellenbosch University. He was general secretary of the Union of South African Democratic Staff Associations (UDUSA), and the research director of the South African National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE). Recent publications include Castells in Africa: Universities and Development.