Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Politics of the Intellect in the Globalized World

   • Shanti George

   Pages 1-40

3. The Politics of the Intellect in Developing Countries

   • Shanti George

   Pages 41-85

4. Citizen Professionals and Cosmopolitan Identities

   • Shanti George

   Pages 86-126

5. Cosmopolitan Pedagogies for Global Citizen Professionals

   • Shanti George

   Pages 127-159

6. Global Friendships: Hegemonic or Transformative? (I) ‘We Were All Strangers’ at a School of Development Studies

   • Shanti George

   Pages 160-189

7. Global Friendships: Hegemonic or Transformative? (II) Global Capitalism and Exclusion — A New Version of the ‘Harvard Murder’

   • Shanti George

   Pages 190-228

8. The Politics of the Imagination in Our Globalized World

   • Shanti George

   Pages 229-257

9. Back Matter

   Pages 258-284

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Universities are increasingly criticised for their limited relevance to a globalized and unequal world. Drawing on research from over 27 countries, this book outlines new directions for universities and the need to rethink the education that they provide based on the experiences of schools of international development studies.

• Higher education
• civic responsibility
• development studies
• education
• Nation
• politics
• research
• university

Shanti George is an independent researcher, based in The Hague. She has been Reader at the University of Delhi, India, Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe and programme specialist for West Asia and North Africa at the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Her books cover comparative rural development, development education, and global perspectives on foster care.

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