Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan
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Matthew Chew
Abstract
In the context of academic globalisation, professional academic organisational formats developed in the West in the 19th and 20th centuries diffuse to local academies across the world. For example, many non-Western nations build their own universities and create local professional academic journals. This study problematises the organisational functional mutation that arises as professional academic organisational formats travel from the West to local academic institutions. It focuses on two kinds of mutation: the appropriation of the boundary-making functions of professional academic organisations by a national disciplinary community or by a subdisciplinary group in the local academy. Both kinds of mutation have a fragmentising effect. The national appropriation of professional academic organisations fragmentises the global disciplinary community. The subdisciplinary appropriation of professional academic organisations fragmentises the national disciplinary community of the non-Western locality. This study analyses these fragmentising effects by observing how they played out in the philosophical discipline of modern China (c. 1900-1950) and Japan (c. 1880-1950).
Abstract
In the context of academic globalisation, professional academic organisational formats developed in the West in the 19th and 20th centuries diffuse to local academies across the world. For example, many non-Western nations build their own universities and create local professional academic journals. This study problematises the organisational functional mutation that arises as professional academic organisational formats travel from the West to local academic institutions. It focuses on two kinds of mutation: the appropriation of the boundary-making functions of professional academic organisations by a national disciplinary community or by a subdisciplinary group in the local academy. Both kinds of mutation have a fragmentising effect. The national appropriation of professional academic organisations fragmentises the global disciplinary community. The subdisciplinary appropriation of professional academic organisations fragmentises the national disciplinary community of the non-Western locality. This study analyses these fragmentising effects by observing how they played out in the philosophical discipline of modern China (c. 1900-1950) and Japan (c. 1880-1950).
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1. China and the global era: From globalisation to everyday life 1
- Chapter 2. Origin effects, spatial dynamics, and redistribution of foreign direct investment in Guangdong, China 21
- Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform 45
- Chapter 4. Neoliberalisation and community development: Comparing community development services in Hong Kong and Beijing 65
- Chapter 5. A review of the effective features of Facebook in social media-based interventions to increase adolescents’ physical activity 89
- Chapter 6. Gender and social capital: The case of a deprived urban community in Hong Kong 103
- Chapter 7. Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses: A case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies 135
- Chapter 8. Aurora College for Women in Shanghai, 1937–1951 155
- Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan 173
- Chapter 10. German Romantic ideals and the revival of traditional Chinese culture in early twentieth century China 191
- Chapter 11. Urban resilience in China: Government action and community response 207
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1. China and the global era: From globalisation to everyday life 1
- Chapter 2. Origin effects, spatial dynamics, and redistribution of foreign direct investment in Guangdong, China 21
- Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform 45
- Chapter 4. Neoliberalisation and community development: Comparing community development services in Hong Kong and Beijing 65
- Chapter 5. A review of the effective features of Facebook in social media-based interventions to increase adolescents’ physical activity 89
- Chapter 6. Gender and social capital: The case of a deprived urban community in Hong Kong 103
- Chapter 7. Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses: A case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies 135
- Chapter 8. Aurora College for Women in Shanghai, 1937–1951 155
- Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan 173
- Chapter 10. German Romantic ideals and the revival of traditional Chinese culture in early twentieth century China 191
- Chapter 11. Urban resilience in China: Government action and community response 207
- Index 225
