The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings

IF 3.6 1区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI:10.1007/s10734-024-01261-7

Riyad A. Shahjahan, Ariful H. Kabir, Nisharggo Niloy

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Abstract

While worldwide media increasingly cover and follow global university rankings’ (GURs) results, a concerted attempt to offer a relational knowledge/power lens underlying the mediatization of GURs remains absent. Drawing on Walter Mignolo’s (2011) “geopolitics of knowledge” concept, we analyzed the Bangladeshi national media’s coverage of Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. rankings (between 2019 and 2021). Amid a globalized media terrain, we illuminate how the geopolitics of knowledge helps foreground ranking logics in national HE (higher education) policy discourse at the periphery of GURs outcomes (e.g., Bangladesh) through the mediatization process. We first show how Bangladeshi media foregrounds GURs as a barometer of quality and accountability to comment on the Bangladeshi HE sector’s deficits. We next demonstrate how Bangladeshi media privileges particular knowledge and authors’ experiences, thus furthering interlocal or transnational hierarchies to help recontextualize GURs in the local context. We argue that national media perpetuates the geopolitics of knowledge via GURs coverage and authorship, allowing ranking logics to be mediatized and foregrounded in national HE policy discourse in a Global South context.

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知识地缘政治在全球大学排名媒介化中的作用

尽管全球媒体越来越多地报道和关注全球大学排名（GURs）结果，但仍缺乏一种协调一致的尝试，即从关系知识/权力的视角来看待全球大学排名的媒体化。借鉴 Walter Mignolo（2011 年）的 "知识地缘政治 "概念，我们分析了孟加拉国国家媒体对《泰晤士报高等教育》和 Quacquarelli Symonds 有限公司排名（2019 至 2021 年）的报道。在全球化的媒体环境中，我们揭示了知识的地缘政治是如何通过媒介化过程，在全球高等教育报告成果的边缘地区（如孟加拉国），帮助国家高等教育（HE）政策话语凸显排名逻辑的。我们首先展示了孟加拉国媒体如何将全球高等教育报告作为质量和问责制的晴雨表来评论孟加拉国高等教育部门的不足。接下来，我们展示了孟加拉国媒体如何赋予特定知识和作者经验以特权，从而推进地方间或跨国等级制度，帮助在地方背景下重新构建《全球报告》。我们认为，国家媒体通过《全球报告》的报道和作者身份延续了知识的地缘政治，使排名逻辑在全球南方背景下的国家高等教育政策话语中得到媒介化和强调。

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Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

10.70

自引率

12.00%

发文量

160

期刊介绍： Higher Education is recognised as the leading international journal of Higher Education studies, publishing twelve separate numbers each year. Since its establishment in 1972, Higher Education has followed educational developments throughout the world in universities, polytechnics, colleges, and vocational and education institutions. It has actively endeavoured to report on developments in both public and private Higher Education sectors. Contributions have come from leading scholars from different countries while articles have tackled the problems of teachers as well as students, and of planners as well as administrators. While each Higher Education system has its own distinctive features, common problems and issues are shared internationally by researchers, teachers and institutional leaders. Higher Education offers opportunities for exchange of research results, experience and insights, and provides a forum for ongoing discussion between experts. Higher Education publishes authoritative overview articles, comparative studies and analyses of particular problems or issues. All contributions are peer reviewed.