Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: TRAJECTORIES AND MAPPINGS

Chapter 1. Studying Participation as/through Figuration Work
Chapter 2. University Reform in Denmark: Negotiating Participation and Democracy
Chapter 3. A History of Student Participation in Denmark

PART II: EVENTS AND FIGURATIONS

Chapter 4. Time and Freedom
Chapter 5. Ownership and Investment
Chapter 6. Bodies and Voices

PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS

Chapter 7. Entangled Figurations
Chapter 8. Participation as Multi-Scaled Citizenship

References

About the Author

Gritt B. Nielsen is Associate Professor of Educational Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Reviews

“Figuration Work speaks to many academic constituencies, not only to the anthropology of policy and the anthropology of education generally, to administrative studies and conflict management, but also to those who cast their research nets into the complexities of university culture… Most importantly, the volume encourages those committed to researching university cultures to suggest new envisioned futures and make some seductive intellectual stabs at the ‘not-yet-thought-of university’.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “[A] well-written piece of work [which] draws upon extensive interdisciplinary studies of higher education and recent theoretical approaches to capitalism and globalization . . . The analysis is careful, detailed, and always points beyond the event analyzed to the social implication and to the change in the theories of civism and citizenship.”  ·  Monica Heintz, University of Paris 10 – Nanterre “I found myself engrossed by Nielsen’s discussion of a number of topics that are of crucial significance for universities today. And I found myself learning from her and using her stories and analyses to think about issues I’m struggling with here [in the U.S].”  ·  Richard Handler, University of Virginia