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University systems in the Arab East

Publish globally and perish locally vs publish locally and perish globally

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ID2305580
AuthorsSari Hanafi (0000-0001-6953-6266, American University of Beirut, Lebanon,, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume59
Issue3
Pages291-309
Publication date2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0011392111400782
OpenAlexW2126400411
LanguageEN
Citations received94
References cited28

This article attempts to demonstrate how the university system and the system of social knowledge production greatly influence elite formation in the Arab East (in Egypt, Syria, the Palestinian territory, Jordan and Lebanon) by focusing on three intertwined factors: compartmentalization of scholarly activities, the demise of the university as a public sphere and the criteria for publication that count towards promotion. Universities have often produced compartmentalized elites inside each nation-state and they don't communicate with one another: they are either elite that publish globally and perish locally or elite that publish locally and perish globally. The article pays special attention to elite universities

Compartmentalization (fire protection · Demise · Elite · Promotion (chess · Publication · Publish or perish · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Higher Education Governance and Development · Social Science and Policy Research

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