Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’

Please note that this event has been rescheduled from 22 February to 10 March.

GURs have garnered increasing media attention since their inception. Yet to date, a concerted attempt to offer an affect lens - emotions, responses, reactions, and feelings that are relational and transpersonal - underlying the mediatisation of GURs remains absent.

The presenters will share their research titled Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India. They will look into how affect plays a pivotal role in how the mediatisation process infuses ranking logic into a national context that is at the periphery of GUR outcomes.

They will argue that national media uses affect to confer and open up GURs for localised meaning making, allowing GURs to persevere despite their questionable legitimacy in a Global South context, thus globalising higher education policy.

Although the event is free and open to everyone, it will be particularly useful for academics and students interested in university rankings, affect theory and higher education.

Related links

• Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India
• Centre for Education and International Development (CEID)
• CEID seminar series
• Department of Education, Practice and Society