Castells in Africa

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unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.