Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor David Mills - University of Oxford
| Dates: | 3 December 2018 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr David Mills |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 3rd of December 2018
Professor David Mills
University Of Oxford
"One million PhDs”: Epistemic politics and doctoral education in Africa
In this paper I address the epistemic consequences of framing doctoral training as a productivity challenge. Amidst claims that Africa ‘needs’ another million PhDs, contemporary doctoral funding initiatives sustain colonial academic networks and mobility regimes. Asymmetric transnational collaborations channel funding and resources to a small research elite. The policy discourse of research ‘capacity building’ effaces the precarity of academic work and doctoral study in many universities, and contrasts with loud calls to decolonize and ‘transform’ African higher education. I use ethnographic portraiture to explore the implications of these epistemic bifurcations, and the value(s) of an anthropology of Higher Education.
Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017
Arthur Lewis Building
Time 4:15 to 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Dr David Mills
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Oxford
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2.016 /017 (Boardroom)
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
