ABSTRACT
Ever-accelerating globalization has generated a number of global flows in a variety of spheres: for example, the flow of capital, media, and information and, importantly for our purposes here, the flow of people and knowledge. There are many benefits of this increased fluidity of movement beyond existing national borders—it can be perceived as liberating, for example—by widening access to travel, work, and education. However, such flows can at the same time be perceived as profoundly destabilizing and threatening, for example, because of perceived threats to security or a stable sense of identity. Within this broader context, the concept of cultural sustainability is concerned with a contemporary conception of being in the world that is not restricted by rigid binary oppositions, and that is open and flexible, whilst also sustaining cultural traditions, languages, and knowledges. This chapter applies the concept of cultural sustainability to the higher education sector.
