This lively and original book changes the way we see globalization and the knowledge economy. Creativity, exchange and the open flow of ideas have long shaped states, economies and everyday life. But knowledge now has an extraordinary dynamism. The world is crisscrossed by traffic in people, data and images. A world society is emerging, though governance is yet to reflect this. Global Creation shows that global creativity is transforming in two ways. First, global synchrony and convergence are changing the conception, production and sharing of creative work and this is feeding back into the core structures of the social world. Second, the global dimension is itself a human product and one that is continually being created. This book explores acts of imagining, producing and regulating the global dimension of action in the past, present and future. It will interest all intelligent readers, particularly those engaged with the history of ideas, political economy, sociology, innovation, or business organization. It follows Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peters, Marginson, Murphy 2009), also published by Peter Lang.
About the Author: The Authors: Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He works on higher education policy, globalization, and comparative and international education. His books include The Enterprise University (with Mark Considine, 2000) and International Student Security (with Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir and Helen Forbes-Mewett, 2010).
Peter Murphy is Associate Professor of Communications at Monash University, Australia. His books include Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (2001) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (with David Roberts, 2004). He is coordinating editor of the international critical theory and historical sociology journal Thesis Eleven.
Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests focus broadly on education, philosophy and social theory. His books include Building Knowledge Cultures (with Tina Besley, 2006), Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (with Tina Besley, 2007) and Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher (with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers, 2008). He edits Educational Philosophy and Theory and ejournals Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning.