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Challenges of the Latin American university
Location [TBD]
Date and Start Time [TBD] at [TBD]
Convenors
Nicolas Fleet (University of Cambridge) email
David Lehmann (University of Cambridge) email
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Short Abstract
What are the social, political and market forces shaping the Latin American university and what is its role in the reproduction of the socio-economic inequalities and ethnic-racial exclusion of Latin American societies? Papers discussing the challenges of the Latin American university are welcomed.
Long Abstract
Beyond the nation-state, the university has historically emerged as one of the most important institutions for the building and development of Latin American countries. Although the concrete forms the university has assumed in the region vary from country to country, the Latin American university has had a common history of transformations. In the recent past, it has been the centre of social modernization and democratization, political mobilization, political repression, privatization and marketization, massification of enrolment, and students’ activism. At the same time, universities in the region are somewhat fractured by the tension between delivering academic excellence – measured by world rankings that confine them to a peripheral position – and producing social inclusion – in terms of providing recognition and effectiveness to the social groups that are increasingly incorporated to higher education.
This panel welcomes papers discussing the current transformations and challenges of the Latin American university. What are the social, political and market forces shaping the Latin American university today and what is its role in the material and symbolic reproduction of Latin American societies? In the context of relatively commodified university systems – functional to the reproduction of intellectual labour for cognitive or informational capitalism – how is the Latin American university addressing – or failing to address – the socio-economic inequalities and forms of ethnic-racial exclusions of the societies in which it operates? Also, how do universities express the power and ideology of both dominant and subaltern social groups, at the same time as they are subjected to the critique of social movements?
Papers
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