Publications

Le monde de la géographie française a récemment vu ressurgir une notion vieille de deux décennies et peu usitée, celle d’antimonde. Pour Roger Brunet, son créateur, l’antimonde est « cette partie du ...

Entre audit cultures et peer reviews, l’évaluation est plus que jamais présente dans le domaine de la recherche académique. EspacesTemps.net consacre une traverse à ce phénomène et souhaite encourager le débat autour ...

La pratique universitaire de la philosophie a une tendance gênante à privilégier l’étude des penseurs à celle de la pensée. Sur la scène de l’ineffable, le culte de la personnalité avance son ...

Comme chaque année, EspacesTemps.net interrompt le flot de ses publications pour une durée d’un mois durant l’été. Nous serons de retour dès le 16 août.L’année 2009-2010 a vu la publication de trois ...

Within less than twenty-four hours, I have moved from Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, with its fifteen-million population, to the Ouessant island, with its less-than-a-thousand population. At the last moment before ...

There is a growing body of literature and events critiquing the spread of ‘audit cultures’[1] in Western research institutions. In brief, these audit cultures imply the assignment of numerical values to the ...

Événements.« Curating the European Universities. European Exposition and Public Debate », 10 et 11 février 2011, Université Catholique de Louvain.Ce colloque est organisé par le Laboratory for Education and Society de l’Université ...

It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of ...

‘Now, of course, we live in Thatcher’s psyche if not her anus, in the world she made, of competition, consumerism, celebrity and guilt’s bastard son, charity: bingeing and debt.’Hanif Kureishi (2008: 271)The ...

The idea of audit, originated from financial regulation, has been introduced into public sectors to rank and assess professional performance against bureaucratic benchmarks and economic targets in response to organizational failure either ...

To all appearances higher education in both the Eu and the Us has turned into a more fashionable topic for politicians and journalists than it was ten years ago. Since rumour has ...

Institutionalized education in most part of the human society seems intrinsically hierarchical. One is supposed to progress from a ‘lower’ level of learning to the ‘higher’; ‘average’ kids study in mediocre schools, ...

Aux yeux des hommes politiques et des journalistes, l’enseignement supérieur, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, est, semble-t-il, un sujet beaucoup plus porteur qu’il ne l’était il y a dix ans. Puisque, selon ...

In 1999, China’s State Council issued a ‘Decision Concerning the Deepening of Education Reform and the All-Out Promotion of Quality Education.’ This document introduced the term ‘education industry’ (教育产业) along with two ...

‘The whole business of peer-reviewed journals has no effect on the external world and is just a Rube Goldberg machine designed to get people tenure.’James C. Scott (2007: 385)‘Accountability has turned to ...