Age Of Knowledge, The: The Dynamics Of Universities, Knowledge & Society (Paperback)

Paperback. The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated, and reproduced. As the development of knowledge continues to be implicated in the habitual practices of the human social enterprise, visualizing these alterations requires consideration of the social and materialistic contexts informing these transformations. This is necessary because the process of globalization has not only created new challenges for societies but has also unleashed a new political economy of knowledge within which different institutions must reaffirm their identity and place. This volume argues that to understand knowledge itself requires analyzing the social and historical context from which said knowledge springs. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…