Castells in Africa : Universities and Development / / edited by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete & François van Schalkwyk.
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-sigh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2018 ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- section 1. Framing Castells in Africa
- 1. Castells in South Africa
- 2. Universities and the 'new society'
- section 2. Castells in South Africa
- 3. Universities as dynamic systems of contradictory functions
- 4. The role of universities in development, the economy and society
- 5. Rethinking development in the global information age
- section 3. Putting Castells to work in Africa
- 6. Roles of universities and the African context
- 7. Universities and economic development in Africa
- 8. Research universities in Africa?
- 9. African universities and connectedness in the information age
- 10 Contradictory functions, unexpected outcomes, new challenges
- Afterword 2017 / by Manuel Castells.