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urn:uuid:9bb617e0-df14-40f9-8903-72d9a1742b4c 03 01 01 urn:uuid:9bb617e0-df14-40f9-8903-72d9a1742b4c 15 9781920677930 06 10.47622/9781920677923 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Castells in Africa Universities and Development 1 A01 21 0000-0001-5777-7089 Johan Muller 2 A01 Nico Cloete 3 A01 21 0000-0002-1048-0429 Francois van Schalkwyk First edition. 01 eng 00 248 03 10 SOC008010 01 06 03 00 Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the universities function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. 04 00 Acknowledgements Preface About the editors Section 1: Framing Castells in Africa 1 Castells in South Africa 2 Universities and the ‘new society’ Section 2: Castells in South Africa 3 Universities as dynamic systems of contradictory functions 4 The role of universities in development, the economy and society 5 Rethinking development in the global information age Section 3: Putting Castells to Work in Africa 6 Roles of universities and the African context 7 Universities and economic development in Africa 8 Research universities in Africa? 9 African universities and connectedness in the information age 10 Contradictory functions, unexpected outcomes, new challenges Afterword by Manuel Castells Appendices References Index 20 00 Open Access African Minds 01 African Minds Cape Town, South Africa 04 01 20160503 2016 06 15 9781920677923 06 15 9781920677930 06 15 9781920677947 09 African Minds 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.africanminds.co.za/castells-in-africa-universities-and-development/ 99 01 09 African Minds 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.africanminds.co.za/10.47622/9781920677923.pdf 99 01