Epistemic Governance in Higher Education: Knowledge, Power, and Citizenship

Abstract

This panel adresses higher education as a form of epistemic governance, examining how curricula, metrics, and research funding shape legitimate knowledge and civic subjectivities across political contexts. It brings together national perspectives across the globe to analyze how higher education institutions participate in the construction of citizenship, democracy, and social order. Rather than treating education as a neutral domain, the panel highlights how governance arrangements embed normative assumptions about progress, participation, and authority, and how these assumptions vary across regimes. By focusing on knowledge politics and institutional design, the panel contributes to broader debates on the role of higher education in governing societies.

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