Knowledge and its Enemies: Towards a New Case for Higher Learning
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Chapter 3: Confronting the Politics of Rationality

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Section A: Intersections of Knowledge and Power

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Section B: Knowledge, States, Trials, and Errors

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Section C: The Coevolution of Rational Systems

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Section D: The Illusion of Rational Autonomy

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Section E: Technocracy by Default

130

Conclusion

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Chapter 4: Australian Knowledge Exports
and the Problem of Democratic
Regionalism: Case Study 1

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Aims and Methods

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Antecedents: Asian Regionalism and Australian Identity

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Context: Regionalism and the Networked University

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Data and Analysis

162

Conclusion

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Chapter 5: Australian Higher Learning and the
Exceptional Powers of the Regulatory
State: Case Study 2

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Aims and Methods

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Antecedents: Politics and the Composite State

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Context: Reinventing Devolution

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Data and Analysis

195

Conclusion

206

Chapter 6: Power Politics in Australian Higher Learning:
The Best and Worst of Worlds (Case Study 3)

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Aims and Methods

214

Antecedents: Pressure Politics in a Changing State

215

Context: Rational Choice and State Capacity

222

Data and Analysis

230

Conclusion

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