Tim Rottleb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1590147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Rottleb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Rottleb |
| SIGNATURE | ROTTLEB T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2477-2836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Performing economic imaginaries of regional transformation: An ethnography of stakeholder events on structural change in Lusatia
This paper examines how the idea of a green knowledge-based economy shapes economic transformation in Lusatia, Germany, following the country’s planned coal phase-out by 2038. Framed as technological and green innovation-driven renewal, this “structural change” imaginary is deeply rooted in the region’s cultural political economy. Drawing on ethnographic research at stakeholder events and desk research, we show how the imaginary is staged, rehear…
Universities’ Offshore Campuses as a Geopolitical Strategy Under the Knowledge-Based Economy
Past years have seen increasing global geopolitical tension, prompting debates in economic geography on ongoing processes of de-globalization, and questions on changing geopolitical and geoeconomic strategies. Within this context and as part of renewed considerations of sovereignty, governments have identified science and higher education as an important field for international relations. While universities have long been shown to be permeated by…
Offshore campus development and the worlding of Dubai as an international education hub
This paper investigates how Dubai is materially and semiotically produced as an "international education hub". As part of developmental strategies to build a knowledge-based economy, Dubai's government mobilizes designated infrastructures and policies to attract numerous foreign universities to open offshore campuses in the city and to offer their programs and degrees. Drawing on scholarship on Dubai's (cultural) political economy and on globaliz…
Germany’s international branch campuses: Neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor
While comprehensive research exists on transnational strategies of universities from the Anglosphere, little is known about why institutions from less marketised higher education systems engage in transnational education provision abroad. Based on semistructured interviews with decision-makers, we investigate why German public universities have established international branch campuses, and explore the underlying rationales and the consequences f…
(Trans)regional embeddedness and the resilience of offshore campuses
Regional embeddedness plays an important role for universities. We show that for transnational subsidiaries of universities, or offshore campuses, which are necessarily transregionally embedded through their relations to their home university campus and its networks, the level of regional embeddedness is also of critical importance. We define four dimensions of regional and transregional embeddedness: partnerships, government funding, faculty and…
Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the 'global knowledge-based economy
This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities' internationalization strategies affect the three cities' positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional and global economies. The paper conceptualize…
Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar
Our analysis focuses on evolving global capitalism's production of high-skilled temporary migrant labour through the technology of special economic zones. Drawing on debates in economic geography on zones as globalised spaces of production and interdisciplinary scholarship on economic transformation in the Arabian Peninsula, we interrogate a relatively new type of zone that agglomerates foreign higher education institutions: transnational educati…
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’
Prevalent notions of ‘education cities’ and ‘education hubs’ are vaguely defined, operate at blurry scales and tend to reproduce promotional language. The article contributes to theorising the geographies and spaces of globalising higher education by developing the concept of transnational education zones. Through an urban political economy lens, we review the relations between universities and cities, consider universities’ role in the political…
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’
Prevalent notions of ‘education cities’ and ‘education hubs’ are vaguely defined, operate at blurry scales and tend to reproduce promotional language. The article contributes to theorising the geographies and spaces of globalising higher education by developing the concept of transnational education zones. Through an urban political economy lens, we review the relations between universities and cities, consider universities’ role in the political…
Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar
Our analysis focuses on evolving global capitalism's production of high-skilled temporary migrant labour through the technology of special economic zones. Drawing on debates in economic geography on zones as globalised spaces of production and interdisciplinary scholarship on economic transformation in the Arabian Peninsula, we interrogate a relatively new type of zone that agglomerates foreign higher education institutions: transnational educati…
(Trans)regional embeddedness and the resilience of offshore campuses
Regional embeddedness plays an important role for universities. We show that for transnational subsidiaries of universities, or offshore campuses, which are necessarily transregionally embedded through their relations to their home university campus and its networks, the level of regional embeddedness is also of critical importance. We define four dimensions of regional and transregional embeddedness: partnerships, government funding, faculty and…
Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the 'global knowledge-based economy
This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities' internationalization strategies affect the three cities' positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional and global economies. The paper conceptualize…
Offshore campus development and the worlding of Dubai as an international education hub
This paper investigates how Dubai is materially and semiotically produced as an "international education hub". As part of developmental strategies to build a knowledge-based economy, Dubai's government mobilizes designated infrastructures and policies to attract numerous foreign universities to open offshore campuses in the city and to offer their programs and degrees. Drawing on scholarship on Dubai's (cultural) political economy and on globaliz…
Germany’s international branch campuses: Neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor
While comprehensive research exists on transnational strategies of universities from the Anglosphere, little is known about why institutions from less marketised higher education systems engage in transnational education provision abroad. Based on semistructured interviews with decision-makers, we investigate why German public universities have established international branch campuses, and explore the underlying rationales and the consequences f…
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’
Prevalent notions of ‘education cities’ and ‘education hubs’ are vaguely defined, operate at blurry scales and tend to reproduce promotional language. The article contributes to theorising the geographies and spaces of globalising higher education by developing the concept of transnational education zones. Through an urban political economy lens, we review the relations between universities and cities, consider universities’ role in the political…
Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar
Our analysis focuses on evolving global capitalism's production of high-skilled temporary migrant labour through the technology of special economic zones. Drawing on debates in economic geography on zones as globalised spaces of production and interdisciplinary scholarship on economic transformation in the Arabian Peninsula, we interrogate a relatively new type of zone that agglomerates foreign higher education institutions: transnational educati…
(Trans)regional embeddedness and the resilience of offshore campuses
Regional embeddedness plays an important role for universities. We show that for transnational subsidiaries of universities, or offshore campuses, which are necessarily transregionally embedded through their relations to their home university campus and its networks, the level of regional embeddedness is also of critical importance. We define four dimensions of regional and transregional embeddedness: partnerships, government funding, faculty and…
Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the 'global knowledge-based economy
This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities' internationalization strategies affect the three cities' positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional and global economies. The paper conceptualize…
Germany’s international branch campuses: Neoliberalising the Humboldtian university through the backdoor
While comprehensive research exists on transnational strategies of universities from the Anglosphere, little is known about why institutions from less marketised higher education systems engage in transnational education provision abroad. Based on semistructured interviews with decision-makers, we investigate why German public universities have established international branch campuses, and explore the underlying rationales and the consequences f…
Offshore campus development and the worlding of Dubai as an international education hub
This paper investigates how Dubai is materially and semiotically produced as an "international education hub". As part of developmental strategies to build a knowledge-based economy, Dubai's government mobilizes designated infrastructures and policies to attract numerous foreign universities to open offshore campuses in the city and to offer their programs and degrees. Drawing on scholarship on Dubai's (cultural) political economy and on globaliz…
Performing economic imaginaries of regional transformation: An ethnography of stakeholder events on structural change in Lusatia
This paper examines how the idea of a green knowledge-based economy shapes economic transformation in Lusatia, Germany, following the country’s planned coal phase-out by 2038. Framed as technological and green innovation-driven renewal, this “structural change” imaginary is deeply rooted in the region’s cultural political economy. Drawing on ethnographic research at stakeholder events and desk research, we show how the imaginary is staged, rehear…
Universities’ Offshore Campuses as a Geopolitical Strategy Under the Knowledge-Based Economy
Past years have seen increasing global geopolitical tension, prompting debates in economic geography on ongoing processes of de-globalization, and questions on changing geopolitical and geoeconomic strategies. Within this context and as part of renewed considerations of sovereignty, governments have identified science and higher education as an important field for international relations. While universities have long been shown to be permeated by…
Political science (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (3 works) · Business (2 works)