1. Variegated Regionalism and Higher Education: An Approach
Susan L. Robertson
University of Bristol
Variegated Regionalism and Higher Education: An Approach

2. Consider these different moments of HE regionalism…

4. EU-LAC

6. How might we theorise these rather different forms of regionalising/region-building? ….. And, what work does HE get asked to do in this process?

7. N=1 Classical political science
Integration largely driven by economic concerns
State led/institutions
Internal process/teleological
Comparison with…[…EUROPE…]

8. Varieties of region-ness
Rise of governance – ‘new regionalism’
Diversity of actors involved
Distinct families of regions with internal coherence
However…region-ness again invokes stages/thickness of institutional arrangements and ignores politics of rescaling, state transformation….

9. Variegated regionalism
Variant of range of work emerging on ‘variegation’
Uneven development of capitalism and workings out of ongoing complex and contradictory cultural, political and economic dynamics
Looks at the events generating events

11. Global HE regionalisms
European Higher Education Area
Brand Mercosur
ASEAN HE Area