Terri Kim

The purpose of this paper is to consider the complex relations of transnational academic mobility, internationalization and interculturality in higher education. It is argued that, in the contemporaneous relations of the triad, ‘interculturality’ disappears and the other two – transnational academic mobility and internationalization – are both enclosed by the market. The contemporary condition and pattern of transnational academic mobility are also shaped by neoliberal policy and market‐framed r

Abstract This article begins with the contemporary context of transnational academic mobility, and sketches a typology of mobile academics according to their self-identification. UK examples are offered as the main case study here. The article will then explore the relations of mobile academics and their embodied and encultured knowledge. It employs a concept of 'transnational identity capital' to discuss the position of transnational mobile academic intellectuals as a 'stranger' as inspired by

This article is an initial attempt to illustrate how patterns of academic mobility in the history of universities have been framed by the international politics of particular time periods. The article briefly looks at ‘the medieval period’ and then at the emergent colonial and nationalist periods, including the ways that institutions as well as academics themselves were mobile. More contemporaneously the powerful political forces of both the interwar period and the Cold War period (which are wel

The central theme of this paper is contradictions: the ways in which official agendas of internationalisation in higher education are disturbed by the principles of inclusion and exclusion in the local context of university academic culture. The case of South Korea shows how the national policies for the inter-nationalisation of higher education are translated into local cultural practice inside academe: What are the ‘positions’ of foreign and female academics in the specific national university

This article offers a reflexive analysis and discussion on the relationship between academic mobility and comparative knowledge creation. It argues that what constitutes ‘comparative knowledge’ is not solely Wissenschaften but more often entwined with Weltanschauungen, derived from lived experiences – as exemplified in the biographic narratives of some of the major intellects. It reviews the notions of the ‘gaze’ and the concepts of the Other and Homeworld/Alienworld as epistemic positioning in

This article analyses the policy and practices of restructuring higher education in South Korea in light of the distinctive characteristics of Korean higher education development and government–higher education relations. The role of government in the development of higher education in Korea has been typically as a direct regulator rather than a coordinator. However, the global trend towards neo-liberal policies, such as privatization and a ‘lean’ state which coordinates market competition, bega

by Amanda H. Goodall, Princeton NJ and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2009, 183 pp., US$29.95/£20.95(hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐691‐13800‐8 Today the concept of ‘the university’ is practically syno...

This thesis analyses the changing shape of the academic profession in (South)
\nKorea and Malaya or Malaysia, and Singapore since the colonial period.
\nThe argument is that the shape of the academic profession which has emerged by
\nthe contemporary period is a reflection of both the inherited models of higher
\neducation and their redefinition after the colonial period. The specific argument
\nof the thesis is that the shaping of the academic profession in these three count

It is important to recognise that comparison is not a method or even an academic technique; rather, it is a discursive strategy… Good comparisons often come from the experience of strangeness and absences. (Benedict Anderson, 2016)

"Chapter 17: Globalization and Higher Education in South Korea: Towards Ethnocentric Internationalization or Global Commercialization of Higher Education?" published on 30 Sep 2011 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

This article critically interrogates East Asian academics’ positional identities in UK universities, internationalisation and diversification against the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework. Contemporary UK policy promoting racial equality and diversity is often over-generalised, while the critical race theory-based literature has focused on hegemonic notions of ‘white privilege’. Neither discourse provides an adequate, comparative perspective of power relati

The theme of this Special Issue is a contemporary version of the traditional theme: the comparative educationist as a foreigner. The theme is very current, not least because of major events in term...