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TY - JOUR
T1 - Putting higher education in its place in (East Asian) political economy
AU - Jessop, Bob
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Comparative Education on 19/01/2016, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03050068.2015.1128659
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article relates changes in higher education (HE) and research in East Asian societies to recent trends in political economy and, in particular, the reorientation of developmental states (DSs) in the region. The DS is oriented to catch-up competitiveness and, as the horizon of development shifts, so do its appropriate institutional forms and strategies. Catch-up competitiveness is guided by economic imaginaries, often linked to geoeconomic, geopolitical, and broader societal imaginaries, whose hegemony depends on particular discursive and disciplinary practices. The shift in the roles of HE and research is related to the reorientation of DSs from export-oriented, investment-led growth to knowledge-intensive, investment-led growth, supplemented in some cases by efforts to create international financial hubs to exploit a global trend towards financialisation. These themes are explored through comparison of selected East Asian economies/societies. The article ends with some general conclusions about the state's continuing role in HE and its internationalisation in the region.
AB - This article relates changes in higher education (HE) and research in East Asian societies to recent trends in political economy and, in particular, the reorientation of developmental states (DSs) in the region. The DS is oriented to catch-up competitiveness and, as the horizon of development shifts, so do its appropriate institutional forms and strategies. Catch-up competitiveness is guided by economic imaginaries, often linked to geoeconomic, geopolitical, and broader societal imaginaries, whose hegemony depends on particular discursive and disciplinary practices. The shift in the roles of HE and research is related to the reorientation of DSs from export-oriented, investment-led growth to knowledge-intensive, investment-led growth, supplemented in some cases by efforts to create international financial hubs to exploit a global trend towards financialisation. These themes are explored through comparison of selected East Asian economies/societies. The article ends with some general conclusions about the state's continuing role in HE and its internationalisation in the region.
KW - Catch-up competitiveness
KW - developmental state
KW - higher education
KW - knowledge-based economy
KW - internationalisation
KW - neo-liberalism
KW - neo-mercantilism
KW - research
U2 - 10.1080/03050068.2015.1128659
DO - 10.1080/03050068.2015.1128659
M3 - Journal article
VL - 52
SP - 8
EP - 25
JO - Comparative Education
JF - Comparative Education
SN - 0305-0068
IS - 1
ER -