Between ‘here-now’ and ‘there-then’: the West and Asia’s colonial entanglements in international higher education

Drawing on a review of international higher education (IHE) policies, priorities, and literature from the USA, Canada, Australia, and the UK over the course of a 16-year period (2000–2016), this article identifies a strong scholarly and policy preoccupation with the urgency of the global knowledge economy and cognate discourses of ‘Asia Pacific century’, an emerging economic and geopolitical configuration that is considered threatening to the...