A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.

Autorentext
SVERKER SÖRLIN is Professor in the Division of History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
HEBE VESSURI is Head of the Department of Science Studies, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela.

Inhalt
The Democratic Deficit of Knowledge Economies; S.Sörlin & H.Vessuri Knowledge, Power and Politics: The Role of the Intellectual In An Age of Transition; I.Wallerstein Modes of Knowledge and Patterns of Power; M.Kogan Knowledge, Theory, and Tension Between Local and Universal Knowledge; R.F.Retamar Universities and Society: Whose Terms of Engagement?; M.Singh Knowledge Functions and the Role of the University; A.Arimoto Knowledge, Culture, and Politics: The Status of Women in the Arab World; F.Charaffeddine The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development; H.Vessuri Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: The Production of Knowledge in the 21st Century; P.T.Zeleza