University systems in the Arab East: Publish globally and perish locally vs publish locally and perish globally
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- 28 April 2011
- journal article
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- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Sociology
- Vol. 59 (3), 291-309
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392111400782
Abstract
This article attempts to demonstrate how the university system and the system of social knowledge production greatly influence elite formation in the Arab East (in Egypt, Syria, the Palestinian territory, Jordan and Lebanon) by focusing on three intertwined factors: compartmentalization of scholarly activities, the demise of the university as a public sphere and the criteria for publication that count towards promotion. Universities have often produced compartmentalized elites inside each nation-state and they don’t communicate with one another: they are either elite that publish globally and perish locally or elite that publish locally and perish globally. The article pays special attention to elite universities.Keywords
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