Castells in Africa universities & 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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cape Town, South Africa :
African Minds
2017.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745262306719 |
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.
