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Ignorance in a Knowledge Economy

Unknowing the Foreigner in the Neoliberal Condition

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Foreigner: a choked up rage deep down in my throat, a black angel clouding transparency, opaque, unfathomable spur. The image of hatred and of the other, a foreigner is neither the romantic victim of our clannish indolence nor the intruder responsible for all the ills of the polis (Kristeva, 1991, p. 1).

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Sonja Arndt

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    Michael A. Peters

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Arndt, S. (2013). Ignorance in a Knowledge Economy. In: Besley, T., Peters, M.A. (eds) Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century. Creative Education Book Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-458-1_9

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