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In the end it was the politics of nation-building which moulded the university rather than the other way round.
Surveys indicate that there is more interest today in politics among college students than has been the case in the recent past.
It may be that the university has no business being in politics in the first place; its job is that of exploring new fields of knowledge and teaching, not political parleying.
In this sense, the analysis of everyday life of students at Beijing University shows not only that sociological categories or communitarian identities are no guarantee of politics, but also that politics among students can exist only by challenging the bond signified by the very category of students.
Finally, the growing external pressures on the university and the reluctance of students and faculty to participate in university politics are cited as factors affect ing the prospects of university governance.
This paper suggests that a new era in the political economy of India - associated with economic liberalisation; the rise of the Hindu right; the regionalisation of politics; and the emergence of a coalitional system of government in New Delhi - provides a new 'field of opportunities' for regions demanding state recognition.
This text demonstrates that there is a politics model that unifies the discipline and structures its relationship to the other social sciences.
Proceeding from Munene's argument regarding a shift in oppositional politics in Africa away from students to multiparty politics, this paper finds that party politics is also increasingly implicated in African student politics with varied results.
I show that most free university activists, myself included, see that it is impossible to distinguish between the inside and outside of the university, and that ultimately working across the 'divide' through prefigurative politics offers a robust means to effect substantive change.
New Delhi tolerates and even supports such localized autocracy as a means to manage security threats.