The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent, and the World City

Science Spaces as ‘Ethnoscapes’: Identity, Perception and the Production of Locality

“…This may reflect a specific research environment established at the outset which, despite some limitations, is rather unlike elsewhere in Japan. The University of Tsukuba, for example, was not organised in the same way as other Japanese universities and recruited at the outset in a more open way [19] (p. 456). However, despite the undoubted and unique mixing of nationalities in TSC, the gaps in communication previously noted by Hall and Castells [29] (p. 72) among different groups of students and scientists and even among research institutes appear to remain.…”

“…Located in rural Ibaraki prefecture it was a curiosity considered hardly part of the core of urban industrial Japan. Traweek [19] (p. 457) previously drew attention to some of the uniqueness of Tsukuba Science City:…”

“…It was a joke about the marginality of the whole place. " [19] (p. 450) Overall, then, in spite of the scale of developments that have occurred at TSC, the picture of marginality and remoteness seems to persist with scientists working in the city. Though different nationalities do mix to some extent, Tsukuba is not cosmopolitan, one interviewee remarking that his colleagues have described it as 'the most boring city they have ever been to' (Interviewee, KEK, 6 June 2016), and referencing the remoteness associated with isolated big science facilities.…”

The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices – moving the ‘field’ forward empirically and theoretically

“…This global professional 'class' provides the expert knowledge and skills needed for the operation of multinational corporations, and consists of highly skilled professionals who circulate the globemostly between key global cities such as New York, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong, but also further afield in Stockholm, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, and so forth (as featured in the papers in this special issue). In recent years, researchers have begun to examine this emergent social group, who are so central in sustaining and advancing processes of globalisation (Beaverstock, 2017;Erkmen, 2018;Harvey & Beaverstock, 2017;Koo, 2016;Ryan & Mulholland, 2014). This special issue of Discourse builds on these contributions empirically and theoretically, through a crucial focus, that has mostly been neglected in the literaturethe parenting strategies and educational choices of globally-mobile professional parents.…”

Discourses of Global Citizenship Education: The Influence of the Global Middle Classes

“…The rise of multinational corporations, which have come to dominate the global economy in the last decades, has been accompanied by the emergence of a new class of globally mobile professionals. This global professional class provides the expert knowledge and skills needed to facilitate these business and organizations, and consists of highly skilled professionals who circulate the globemostly between key cities such as New York, London, and Hong Kong (Beaverstock, 2017;Devadason, 2017;Meyer, 2000). In recent years, researchers have begun to examine this emergent social group which plays a key role in globalization (Beaverstock, 2005;Favel, 2008), but still relatively little empirical research exists on this group (Yemini & Maxwell, 2017).…”