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Castells in Africa : Universities and Development /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castells, Manuel, 1942- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Van Schalkwyk, François (Editor ), Cloete, Nico (Editor ), Muller, Johan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.