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Publication Date: 2011
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Neoliberalism, Urbanism and the Education Economy: Producing Hyderabad as a "Global City"
Kamat, Sangeeta
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v32 n2 p187-202 2011
This paper examines the emergence of Hyderabad as a hub of the global information technology economy, and in particular, the role of higher education in Hyderabad's transformation as the labor market for the new economy. The extensive network of professional education institutions that service the global economy illustrates the ways in which neoliberal globalization is produced through educational restructuring and new modes of urban development. Neoliberal globalization, however, is a variegated process wherein local social hierarchies articulate with state policies and global capital. This study shows how caste and class relations in the education sector in Andhra Pradesh are instrumental to forming Hyderabad's connection to the global economy. The contradictions of these regional realignments of education, geography and economy are manifest in the uneven development of the region and the rise of new socio-political struggles for the right to the city. (Contains 20 notes and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Class, Global Approach, Labor Market, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Professional Education, Political Attitudes, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries, Geography, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Public Policy
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