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This chapter offers an examination of East Asian ‘knowledge spatialities’, situating the policies of individuals countries in the region in the context of their emotional landscapes. We show that policies introduced to assemble globalising universities are framed by constellations of feelings stored in the body politic (emotional archive). Long before a policy materialises as text on an institutional website, various configurations of power and knowledge—discourses—are at work behind the scenes assembling meanings that will come to influence a policy’s implementation. We proceed to examine the 1997 Financial Crisis as an emotion-driven discursive event that set off a region-wide discourse of ‘knowledge-based’ economic development. The chapter then moves on to examine the accounts of university officials in ‘thinking, feeling and enacting’ the practices that make up globalising universities—what it takes to make East Asian universities ‘sticky places’ for mobile ideas, and mobile students and scholars. We highlight the constantly shifting connections between the different elements of university policy assemblages in each of the national settings as university officials strive to lead their institutions towards ‘world-class’ reputations.
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The New Southbound platform has specified a number of educational initiatives, anticipated to increase people-to-people contact between Taiwan and its new allies. Included are initiatives to increase by 20% the recruitment into higher and vocational education of international students from Southeast and South Asia. Special attention is also being given to supporting the educational needs of the children of migrants who choose to move to Taiwan. Bilateral agreements to enable reciprocal investment rights and employment rights between Taiwan and target countries have also been underway.
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Sidhu, R.K., Kong Chong, H., Yeoh, B.S.A. (2020). Emotional Geographies of University Officialdom. In: Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4_3
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