Regional Solidarity Undermined? Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time

Autor/inn/en	Hayes, Aneta; Al'Abri, Khalaf Marhoun
Titel	Regional Solidarity Undermined? Higher Education Developments in the Arabian Gulf, Economy and Time
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 55 (2019) 2, S.157-174 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2018.1504884
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Geographic Regions; Knowledge Economy; Social Change; Educational Development; Cross Cultural Studies; Economic Development; Foreign Countries; Educational Cooperation; Partnerships in Education; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Nationalism; Oman; Bahrain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsentwicklung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Ausland; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Nationalismus
Abstract	The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidarity goals of common economic and educational development in the Gulf region are challenged by locally focussed priorities at the level of each nation state. These findings carry important theoretical implications as the time of transition to a knowledge economy seems to drive readjustments in thinking about what the 'Gulf-wide unity is for', prompting its repositioning from an alliance established to protect and facilitate regional development to a means supporting local ends. The paper therefore challenges the spatial focus in some theoretical frameworks used in analyses of the sociology of regional solidarities and calls for the need of temporal lenses in such analyses. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01