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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-AU">Call
for papers - Edufactory Journal, No. 1 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-AU">Transforming
Universities: Measure, Transition,
Institution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-AU"><a
href="http://www.edu-factory.org"><span style="color:
windowtext;">http://www.edu-factory.org</span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-AU">‘</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">The old
institutions are crumbling ...’ - so began the introduction to
the zero issue
of Edufactory Journal on the double crisis of the university and
the global
economy. Paradoxically, one of the conditions of this double
crisis is the
global expansion of the university. The old institutions are
crumbling but they
are simultaneously trying to reinvent themselves, to transplant
themselves, to
network themselves. This issue of the Edufactory Journal will
investigate two
faces of this situation. The first section entitled
‘Occupations’ will examine
the global transition of higher education with a focus on new
institutions
being established in different parts of the world. The second
section entitled
‘Anomalies’ will focus on struggles against the ‘system of
measure’ that
presides over the transition of universities. As the overall
ambition of the
issue is to understand the connection between the globalization
of higher
education and the imposition of measure, we also welcome
contributions that
critically analyse the connections between these processes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-AU">‘Occupations’
will examine the proliferation of
new universities. Not only do we witness the founding of online
universities
but also the massive expansion of the education market in
countries such as
India, China, Egypt and Brazil. New knowledge spaces are being
established in
special economic zones and new kinds of partnerships, consortia
and divisions
of labour are being forged between higher education institutions
across the
world. The opening of offshore branch campuses accompanies the
establishment of
new kinds of private institutions and the forging of
international university
chains or networks under different corporate banners and
branding techniques.
With these developments appear new transnational forms of
institutional
governance, new kinds of trade relations, and new kinds of
connections between
universities and societies. There also arise new knowledge
practices and
conflicts as institutions negotiate their structures with regard
to
disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and the ‘conflict of the
faculties’. The
topic of ‘new universities’ is related to the question of
transition. On one
hand, we wish to enquire into the meaning and models of
transition in concrete
cases - for example, in the post-soviet world. On the other
hand, if the
concept of transition implies a non-historicist narration, we
can also approach
it as a space of possibility: that is to say, the permanent
transition of
capitalism also signals the possibility of new kinds of
political thought and
action. How do we read this possibility alongside the imperative
to innovation,
constant variation and adaptation that animates the
globalization of higher
education? And how do these changes produce new kinds of
subjectivities and
struggles in the production of knowledge?<br>
<br>
There is a strict connection between the pressures on
universities to produce
innovation and adapt to change and the ‘system of measure’ that
drives the
emergent forms of higher education. The ‘Anomalies’ section will
critically
examine this ‘system of measure’, the struggles against it and
efforts to invent
alternatives to it. By the ‘system of measure’ we refer to an
assemblage of
techniques for quantifying, standardizing, counting, ranking,
benchmarking and
rigidly assigning value to academic production and labour . Peer
review is an
important element of the ‘system of measure’ as is the
construction of
university rankings, the calculation of economic impacts, the
introduction of
workload formulas, the conduct of research audits, the use of
performance
indicators and the deployment of metrics. These technologies not
only quantify
and hierarchize the field of higher education to ever higher
degrees but they
also seek to homogenize and individualize the production of
living knowledge.
Furthermore, they are key drivers in processes of<br>
institutional restructuring and the drawing of business plans
for establishment
of new higher education institutions. Struggles against the
axing of academic
programs or tuition fee hikes are directly struggles against the
system of
measure. This section of the journal will investigate such
struggles as well as
practices that thwart the ‘system of measure’ through protest,
resistance and
the invention of alternatives.<br>
<br>
The Edufactory Journal is a venue for experimentation with
alternative forms of
intellectual production that emphasize cooperation,
self-organization and the
refusal of measure. The journal embodies these principles in its
processes and
methods and not only its end products. We welcome contributions
from authors
who address the questions surrounding the global transition of
higher education
and/or take a critical approach to the ‘system of measure’.
Articles that
tackle both of these tasks are especially welcome. All
submissions must confirm
to the <a
href="http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=379&Itemid=54"><span
style="color: windowtext;">style guide published on the
journal’s site</span></a>.<br>
They will be collectively read by the editorial board in an open
and
collaborative manner.<br>
<br>
Deadline for submissions is: 15 January 2011. Please send
submissions <br>
to: <a href="mailto:n.puwar@gold.ac.uk"><span style="color:
windowtext;">n.puwar@gold.ac.uk</span></a>
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