John Welsh

TL;DR: The authors combine two emergent critical perspectives that are apparent in recent writing on the twenty-first century public university, and in so doing it conjures a potent intervention into the g....

TL;DR: In an historical materialist analysis as discussed by the authors, the authors challenge the dominant understanding of global academic rankings as "inevitable" and "here to stay" and instead treat rankings as his

TL;DR: The Global City formation as a post-disciplinary technique in the capitalist world-system bound into the ecological contradictions of that system entering into a period of chronic crisis in the twenty-first century is conceptualised in geo-historical terms as a distinct geotechnic modulation of control, through which the Global City is constituted as a geo-machinic assemblage in the historical technics of capitalist civilisation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: There is a need in academic rankings research for a more critical and political analysis beyond the register of normative global governance studies and the pervasive positivism of new publi... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that the dominant liberal discourse of the City of London is a political apologetic for the domination of metropolitan power positionalities that rather appropriate, command, and dispose the disbursements of capital.