Book Reviews by Claudia Baumann
Von der „geräuschlosen Propaganda“ zur Ausbildung der „geistigen Wehr“ des „Neuen Europa“ (= Inte... more Von der „geräuschlosen Propaganda“ zur Ausbildung der „geistigen Wehr“ des „Neuen Europa“ (= Internationale Beziehungen. Theorie und Geschichte, Buch 9), Bonn: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2013, 522 Seiten in Comparativ Heft 4/5, 23. Jahrgang, 2013
London, Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, Jahr: 2013 reviewed for Humboldt-Universität Berlin https://hs... more London, Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, Jahr: 2013 reviewed for Humboldt-Universität Berlin https://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/
Munich, C. H. Beck, 2010 reviewed for Comparativ (3) 3014. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und v... more Munich, C. H. Beck, 2010 reviewed for Comparativ (3) 3014. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung.
Books and Special Journal Issues by Claudia Baumann
Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014
Rather than viewing it as an arbitrary or expansionary concept based on
the belief that “more is ... more Rather than viewing it as an arbitrary or expansionary concept based on
the belief that “more is better”, universities around the world are strategically forming their own internationalization profiles, each adapting to its particular environment but all reaching for similar goals of rich international profiles. In our examination of the global involvement of universities, we discovered one indicator that is rarely explored by scholars of global higher education: the coverage of the “global” in the curriculum. We pored through the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD programmes offered and checked to what degree the “global” is represented in programmes, and to what extent it correlates with how these universities internationalize otherwise. We located area studies in the university curriculums and juxtaposed them with what is commonly understood as “internationalization strategy”: student mobility and cooperation agreements. We suggest that area studies are particularly relevant to the process of internationalization at universities.
Portals of Globalization in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edited by Claudia Baumann, Antje Diet... more Portals of Globalization in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edited by Claudia Baumann, Antje Dietze, Megan Maruschke.
Double special issue of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 27 (2017) 3-4. https://www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/view/145
Portals of globalization is an analytical category introduced in globalization research to investigate how global flows are anchored and articulated in particular places. It has been used to analyse the way flows and controls come together on multiple scales, and how actors in these places actively manage global entanglements. Consequently, the changing positionality of these places in global networks can reveal the scope, function, and transformation of global connections and shifting spatial orders. Stemming from research debates on the historicity, regional difference, and spatial complexity of globalization processes, this issue seeks to strengthen empirical insights from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. It brings together research on past and present portals of globalization to facilitate the dialogue across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A special focus on a variety of local and regional contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America allows us to re-evaluate assumptions about the centres and peripheries of globalization processes, the mechanisms and directionality of circulations, and the asymmetries in global connectedness.
Journal Articles by Claudia Baumann
Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 2019
The higher education sector in Ethiopia has witnessed an epochal transformation against the backd... more The higher education sector in Ethiopia has witnessed an epochal transformation against the backdrop of the so-called global knowledge age. Expansion and internationalization unfold simultaneously and are deeply intertwined. This article analyzes how an economically and politically stronger global South changes the higher education landscape in Ethiopia. We focus on cooperation programs of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and GIZ (German Corporation for International Cooperation) and show how these are adjusted to the new global political conditions. Cooperation with traditional partners from the global North remains important but is increasingly combined and complemented with actors from the global South.
This article looks at the heightened role of universities in the global knowledge age. Flows of p... more This article looks at the heightened role of universities in the global knowledge age. Flows of people, ideas, and also capital in the academic realm continue to multiply, propelling global connectedness and contributing to the reshuling of the hitherto prevailing political orders. Universities are understood as places where these lows are instigated and controlled. The article adds insight to the ield of global higher education by emphasizing universities in the Global South, to better understand their role in shaping processes of globalization. Four arguments guide the reader, the irst of which explains how universities have been discursively rescaled. The second argument looks at university-state relations and increased institutional power. Differentiation in the higher-education landscape and academic hierarchies are examined in the third part, while section four reveals shortcomings of mobility igures aggregated at national level.
Der Artikel thematisiert die zunehmende Bedeutung von Universitäten im Zeitalter der glo-balen Wissenslandschaft. Akademische Mobilität, der Austausch von Wissen und die damit verbundenen Kapitalströme tragen erheblich zur globalen Vernetzung und zur Neuordnung der Weltpolitik bei. Universitäten werden als Orte verstanden, an denen diese grenzüberschrei-tenden Prozesse initiiert und kontrolliert werden. Im Fokus stehen hier Universitäten im globa-len Süden, was Diskussionen über deren Rolle in Globalisierungsprozessen anregt und somit das Spektrum der globalen Hochschulforschung erweitert. Der Artikel gliedert sich in vier Teile, wobei sich der erste mit einer diskursiven Neuausrichtung befasst. Zweitens werden die Bezie-hungen zwischen Universität und Staat vor dem Hintergrund einer Portalperspektive skizziert, bevor im dritten Teil die Relevanz von Diferenzierung und akademischen Hierarchien erklärt wird. Das letzte Argument stellt die Aussagekraft von nationalen Mobilitätsstatistiken in Frage.
Comparativ: Zeischrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2017
Portals of globalization is an analytical category introduced in globalization research to invest... more Portals of globalization is an analytical category introduced in globalization research to investigate how global flows are anchored and articulated in particular places. It has been used to analyse the way flows and controls come together on multiple scales, and how actors in these places actively manage global entanglements. Consequently, the changing positionality of these places in global networks can reveal the scope, function, and transformation of global connections and shifting spatial orders. Stemming from research debates on the historicity, regional difference, and spatial complexity of globalization processes, this issue seeks to strengthen empirical insights from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. It brings together research on past and present portals of globalization to facilitate the dialogue across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A special focus on a variety of local and regional contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America allows us to re-evaluate assumptions about the centres and peripheries of globalization processes, the mechanisms and directionality of circulations, and the asymmetries in global connectedness.
Book Chapters by Claudia Baumann
In: Universities as Transformative Social Spaces, Oxford University Press, 2022
This chapter adds insight into student mobility by looking at one university. It overcomes the fi... more This chapter adds insight into student mobility by looking at one university. It overcomes the fixation on data aggregated on national level and the obsession with major host and source countries. I first look at admission procedures for international students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, showing how universities develop mechanisms to steer their global connectedness. I contrast this institutional setting with students’ perspectives highlighting the role that global imaginaries play. First, it becomes clear that with increasing student mobility the university has become an important social arena where border transcending movements are continuously negotiated. Second, the place specific analysis of student mobility makes historical routes, unintended singularities, and new paths in student mobility visible. The chapter helps to understand the part that universities in the Global South play in shaping processes of reshuffling mobilities and mobilisations and processes of globalisation at large.
The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies, 2018
Focusing on universities rather than on entire higher education systems sheds light on the nature... more Focusing on universities rather than on entire higher education systems sheds light on the nature, intensity, and directionality of connections. Border-transcending connections between universities become empirically tangible, which in turn reveal that connectedness often is rather transnational or transregional than global in its character. The first part of this chapter demonstrates how universities have acquired a symbolic function as portals of globalization in an increasingly interconnected higher education discourse. The second part underlines how universities have experienced a de facto growth in institutional
power, as they have gained a new degree of importance and developed ways of dealing with the ‘global condition’. Differentiation and ranking in the higher education landscape, as laid out in the third part, has led to an unprecedented exposure of individual institutions that can no longer hide behind the relative insulation of national academic systems.
The university’s role in facilitating and steering global mobility is probably the most salient and quantifiable feature of the university as a portal, and thus receives attention in the fourth part. The fifth part deals with the teaching of ‘the global’ through course curricula, an aspect that is rarely touched upon in assessing the role of universities.
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Book Reviews by Claudia Baumann
Books and Special Journal Issues by Claudia Baumann
the belief that “more is better”, universities around the world are strategically forming their own internationalization profiles, each adapting to its particular environment but all reaching for similar goals of rich international profiles. In our examination of the global involvement of universities, we discovered one indicator that is rarely explored by scholars of global higher education: the coverage of the “global” in the curriculum. We pored through the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD programmes offered and checked to what degree the “global” is represented in programmes, and to what extent it correlates with how these universities internationalize otherwise. We located area studies in the university curriculums and juxtaposed them with what is commonly understood as “internationalization strategy”: student mobility and cooperation agreements. We suggest that area studies are particularly relevant to the process of internationalization at universities.
Double special issue of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 27 (2017) 3-4. https://www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/view/145
Portals of globalization is an analytical category introduced in globalization research to investigate how global flows are anchored and articulated in particular places. It has been used to analyse the way flows and controls come together on multiple scales, and how actors in these places actively manage global entanglements. Consequently, the changing positionality of these places in global networks can reveal the scope, function, and transformation of global connections and shifting spatial orders. Stemming from research debates on the historicity, regional difference, and spatial complexity of globalization processes, this issue seeks to strengthen empirical insights from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. It brings together research on past and present portals of globalization to facilitate the dialogue across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A special focus on a variety of local and regional contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America allows us to re-evaluate assumptions about the centres and peripheries of globalization processes, the mechanisms and directionality of circulations, and the asymmetries in global connectedness.
Journal Articles by Claudia Baumann
Der Artikel thematisiert die zunehmende Bedeutung von Universitäten im Zeitalter der glo-balen Wissenslandschaft. Akademische Mobilität, der Austausch von Wissen und die damit verbundenen Kapitalströme tragen erheblich zur globalen Vernetzung und zur Neuordnung der Weltpolitik bei. Universitäten werden als Orte verstanden, an denen diese grenzüberschrei-tenden Prozesse initiiert und kontrolliert werden. Im Fokus stehen hier Universitäten im globa-len Süden, was Diskussionen über deren Rolle in Globalisierungsprozessen anregt und somit das Spektrum der globalen Hochschulforschung erweitert. Der Artikel gliedert sich in vier Teile, wobei sich der erste mit einer diskursiven Neuausrichtung befasst. Zweitens werden die Bezie-hungen zwischen Universität und Staat vor dem Hintergrund einer Portalperspektive skizziert, bevor im dritten Teil die Relevanz von Diferenzierung und akademischen Hierarchien erklärt wird. Das letzte Argument stellt die Aussagekraft von nationalen Mobilitätsstatistiken in Frage.
Book Chapters by Claudia Baumann
power, as they have gained a new degree of importance and developed ways of dealing with the ‘global condition’. Differentiation and ranking in the higher education landscape, as laid out in the third part, has led to an unprecedented exposure of individual institutions that can no longer hide behind the relative insulation of national academic systems.
The university’s role in facilitating and steering global mobility is probably the most salient and quantifiable feature of the university as a portal, and thus receives attention in the fourth part. The fifth part deals with the teaching of ‘the global’ through course curricula, an aspect that is rarely touched upon in assessing the role of universities.
the belief that “more is better”, universities around the world are strategically forming their own internationalization profiles, each adapting to its particular environment but all reaching for similar goals of rich international profiles. In our examination of the global involvement of universities, we discovered one indicator that is rarely explored by scholars of global higher education: the coverage of the “global” in the curriculum. We pored through the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD programmes offered and checked to what degree the “global” is represented in programmes, and to what extent it correlates with how these universities internationalize otherwise. We located area studies in the university curriculums and juxtaposed them with what is commonly understood as “internationalization strategy”: student mobility and cooperation agreements. We suggest that area studies are particularly relevant to the process of internationalization at universities.
Double special issue of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 27 (2017) 3-4. https://www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/view/145
Portals of globalization is an analytical category introduced in globalization research to investigate how global flows are anchored and articulated in particular places. It has been used to analyse the way flows and controls come together on multiple scales, and how actors in these places actively manage global entanglements. Consequently, the changing positionality of these places in global networks can reveal the scope, function, and transformation of global connections and shifting spatial orders. Stemming from research debates on the historicity, regional difference, and spatial complexity of globalization processes, this issue seeks to strengthen empirical insights from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. It brings together research on past and present portals of globalization to facilitate the dialogue across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A special focus on a variety of local and regional contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America allows us to re-evaluate assumptions about the centres and peripheries of globalization processes, the mechanisms and directionality of circulations, and the asymmetries in global connectedness.
Der Artikel thematisiert die zunehmende Bedeutung von Universitäten im Zeitalter der glo-balen Wissenslandschaft. Akademische Mobilität, der Austausch von Wissen und die damit verbundenen Kapitalströme tragen erheblich zur globalen Vernetzung und zur Neuordnung der Weltpolitik bei. Universitäten werden als Orte verstanden, an denen diese grenzüberschrei-tenden Prozesse initiiert und kontrolliert werden. Im Fokus stehen hier Universitäten im globa-len Süden, was Diskussionen über deren Rolle in Globalisierungsprozessen anregt und somit das Spektrum der globalen Hochschulforschung erweitert. Der Artikel gliedert sich in vier Teile, wobei sich der erste mit einer diskursiven Neuausrichtung befasst. Zweitens werden die Bezie-hungen zwischen Universität und Staat vor dem Hintergrund einer Portalperspektive skizziert, bevor im dritten Teil die Relevanz von Diferenzierung und akademischen Hierarchien erklärt wird. Das letzte Argument stellt die Aussagekraft von nationalen Mobilitätsstatistiken in Frage.
power, as they have gained a new degree of importance and developed ways of dealing with the ‘global condition’. Differentiation and ranking in the higher education landscape, as laid out in the third part, has led to an unprecedented exposure of individual institutions that can no longer hide behind the relative insulation of national academic systems.
The university’s role in facilitating and steering global mobility is probably the most salient and quantifiable feature of the university as a portal, and thus receives attention in the fourth part. The fifth part deals with the teaching of ‘the global’ through course curricula, an aspect that is rarely touched upon in assessing the role of universities.