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In this chapter, the author presents a set of interrelated theoretical tools drawing on spatial, network, and mobilities theories that provide the post-foundational framework for analyzing how higher education institutions are now internationalized. The chapter demonstrates how the theoretical tools deployed draw on Foucauldian concepts, such as discourse, governmentality, and the productive, disciplinary nature of power/knowledge. Three theoretical frameworks are described. These include spatial theories that emphasize the need for complex understandings of the relationship between place/local and space/global. The author then describes network theories drawing on the work of Manuel Castells. Finally, key concepts associated with mobilities theories, including the idea of immobilities are outlined to show the reader the ways in social relations in internationalized higher education settings are produced through mobility.
Marianne A. LarsenWestern University London, Canada
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Time needs to be considered within this relational analysis as well, given that spatiality cannot be separated from temporality. Local–global spatial relations are co-constituted across space and time. As Massey (2005) explains, “space is not static (i.e. time-less), nor time space-less…spatiality and temporality are different from each other but neither can be conceptualized as the absence of the other” (p. 155).
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Larsen, M.A. (2016). Constructing a Theoretical Framework: Space, Networks, and Mobilities. In: Internationalization of Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53345-6_2
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