This book examines human processes and practices connected to technology embedded within social, political, and moral spheres of life. This innovative publication engages readers in critical debates connected to the ethical dimensions of a technological society through insightfu…
Esta investigación tuvo como propósito explorar, documentar y comparar las respuestas de ocho síndicos de dos sistemas, uno público y uno privado, de educación superior en Puerto Rico. Se auscultaron los retos y las oportunidades que plantea la sociedad del conocimiento para la …
This thesis examines the reconstruction of Lebanon following the war with Israel in the summer of 2006. Based on Stehr's notion of the contemporary global economy (1994), the thesis offers a comprehensive account of how Lebanon used a global network to rebuild its infrastructure…
Foresight has been increasingly acknowledged as a valuable policy-making process. It has evolved from informing policies about key technological fields that would be of outmost importance in the future to (re)orienting and opening up policies towards societal needs. The wide app…
This study explores models for the reform of higher education in Egypt, and warns of potential consequences arising from the adoption of models based exclusively on the requirements of the knowledge economy and which fail to take account of the public role of national universiti…
This dissertation explores the impact of an authoritarian state on the university as represented by the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. I examine how academics negotiate their tasks of acquiring, disseminating and producing knowled…
This dissertation analyzes the transformation of Soviet secular culture into a resource for post-Soviet religiosity, as an example of the relationship between secular and religious spheres. Based on archival research on Khrushchev- and Brezhnev-era atheist propaganda and ethnogr…
For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive per…