SEMINAR:
  Political Science and International Relations Seminar
  - Governing Asian International students’ Mobility in Australia
		
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:00 - Social Sciences 2.63
		
Xianlin Song, UWA & Greg McCarthy, Peking University
Over the past two decades, Asian international mobility has literally
changed the face of Australian campus, altered the socio-political
dynamics of higher education, and posed many challenges for policy
makers, managements, academics and students caught up in the torrents of
globalization. This paper outlines the transformed higher education
landscape, and contests against the ‘neoliberal cascade’ of students
as customers and the marginalization of public good. It draws out the
implications of the State regulatory regime’s attempts to redefine the
public good of a university in market citizen terms at a time of
Asia’s rise as a hub of knowledge production. The paper argues that in
face of increased mobility, Australian universities have imposed
uniformity in governing practices in which difference is sublimated and
categorized along a developmental continuum. The paper notes what is
unique about the Australian university system is its openness to the
inflow of students and academics from the Global South but dominated by
the hegemonic ideology of the Global North. The paper argues for a new
ontology as well as a new epistemology that recognise the
‘internationalising’ effect of international students, and oblige a
global cognitive justice and build an international constituency of the
public good of international student mobility.
		
For more information:
  Mark Beeson
  mark.beeson@uwa.edu.au

Starts       : Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:00
Ends         : Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:00
		
Last Updated : Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:28