‘World-class’ fantasies: A neocolonial analysis of international branch campuses:
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"‘World-class’ fantasies: A neocolon..." refers background in this paper
...…by an understanding of discourse as collections of interrelated texts and practices that ‘systematically form the object of which they speak’ (Foucault, 1972: 49) and of how individuals then participate and (re)produce the discursive practices that are the condition and consequence of…...
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...We approach the world-class discourse as an ideology and a fantasy that not only constructs us as subjects but is parallel to the way ideologies interpolate us and structure neocolonial relations (Žižek, 1998)....
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...Thus, as fantasies seek to dispel the incoherency in the other (Žižek, 1998), we also find that organizational fantasies further seek to dispel the incoherency in oneself....
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...In organization studies, this type of activity has been discussed as a form of cynical resistance, meaning that people somehow know they are embracing and seeking to fulfil an illusion yet continue to act accordingly (Fleming and Spicer, 2003; Žižek, 1998)....
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...We argue that the power of the world-class discourse is embedded in its rhetoric and imaginary, which create a fantasy, that is, a positivized construction of impossible fullness (Žižek, 1998: 100)....
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...Nevertheless, the claim of knowing the Other is based on an imaginary and the fantasy of coherency is destabilized because of the presence of the Other (Lok and Willmott, 2014; Žižek, 1998)....
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"‘World-class’ fantasies: A neocolon..." refers background in this paper
...…be heard in order to disrupt neocolonialist practices and bring the periphery to the centre of academic discussion and theory formation (e.g. Alcadipani et al., 2012; Alcadipani and Faria, 2014; Ibarra-Colado, 2006; Mignolo, 2011; Mir and Mir, 2013; Özkazanç-Pan, 2008; Westwood et al., 2014)....
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...The world-class discourse seeks to signal educational institutions’ value in the global higher education network, suggesting that the institution would then be a part of a group of educational elite (Salmi, 2009)....
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