Geographies of the University

Chapter 1: Geographies of the University. An Introduction (Peter Meusburger).- Part 1: Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 2: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) and the Geography of German Universities and Academics (1350-1550) (Rainer C. Schwinges).- Chapter 3: Scientific and Cultural Relations between Heidelberg University and Hungary over Five Centuries (Peter Meusburger).- Chapter 4: Catchment Areas and Killing Fields: Towards an Academic Geography of the Thirty Years' War (Howard Hotson).- Chapter 5: A Political Geography of University Foundation: The Case of the Danish Monarchy (Hanne Kirstine Adriansen).- Chapter 6: 'A Small Town of Character': Locating a New Scottish University, 1963 - 1965 (Michael Heffernan).- Part II: Spaces and Governance of Knowledge, Research and Education.- Chapter 7: Knowledge Environments at Universities. Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (Peter Meusburger).- Chapter 8: Quality Cultures in Higher Education Institutions. Development of the Quality Culture Inventory (Christine Sattler).- Chapter 9: Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence, or Towards a Sociology of Things that Aren't There (Jennifer L. Croissant).- part III: Universities and Regional Economies.- Chapter 10: The entrepreneurial university wave: shaping a triple helix for sustainable innovation (Henry Etzkowitz).- Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of the Universities in the State of Baden-Württemberg (Johannes Glückler).- Chapter 12: African Universities as Employers of Returning Graduates from Germany. The Example of Ghana and Cameroon (Julia Boger).- Part IV: Localization, Globalization and Regional Integration of Universities.- Chapter 13: The University in its Place: Thinking in and Beyond Globalization (Allan Cochrane ).- Chapter 14: The University Unbound: How Roots and Routes Intersect (Jane Kenway).- Chapter 15: International Education Hubs (Jane Knight).- Chapter 16: The Nonmetropolitan University's Regional Engagement in the African Context:

Peter Meusburger is Distinguished Senior Professor of Social and Economic Geography at Heidelberg University. His main research interests are spatial and social disparities of educational achievement; the nexus between knowledge and space; milieus of creativity; relations between knowledge and power; spatial mobility of knowledge; knowledge and economic performance, and related fields. He has published more than 300 academic papers, book chapters and books, and has edited 28 books. Peter Meusburger holds a PhD in geography from Innsbruck University. Between 1983 and 2007 he had the chair of Social and Economic Geography at Heidelberg University. He was visiting scholar in Japan, USA, Hungary, China and Brazil. He served Heidelberg University as Dean and Prorector and was president of the Association of German Geographers between 2001 and 2003. He is the editor of the Springer series "Knowledge and Space".