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Consistent with an ongoing experience of neo-liberal experimentation, tertiary sector reform in New Zealand is being driven by the ambition to re-create universities in a qualitatively new form. We argue that, through calculative practices, New Zealand universities are being positioned and are positioning themselves in the neo-liberalizing spaces of university education. In turn, these calculative practices are giving rise to new views of the university and altering the behaviours of staff and students. We draw attention not only to the constitutive power of calculative practices, but also to the political contestations that surround them. Our conclusion is that, because of these contestations, the spaces and subjectivities of the neo-liberalizing university are multiple and contradictory. The attempted reinvention of New Zealand universities will have varied effects and give rise to multiple political forms.

1. Introduction : mapping the concept of globalising networks / Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron -- 2. Upgrading in South Africa's squid value chain / Charles Mather -- 3. Agribusiness and poverty reduction : what can be learned from the value chain approach? / Andreas Stamm -- 4. big is not always better : global value chain restructuring and the crisis in South Indian tea estates / Jeffrey Neilson and Bill Pritchard -- 5. Contesting the rules of exchange : changing conventions of procurement in the MERCOSUR Yerba Mate commodity chain / Christopher Rosin -- 6. Audit me this! Kiwifruit producer uptake of the EurepGAP audit system in New Zealand / Christopher Rosin, Hugh Campbell and Lesley Hunt -- 7. Maintaining the 'clean green' image : governance of on-farm environmental practices in the New Zealand dairy industry / Paula Blackett and Richard Le Heron -- 8. A sustainable fisheries oasis? Strategy and performance in the New Zealand seafood sector / Eugene Rees -- 9. Constructing economic objects of governance : the New Zealand wine industry / Nicolas Lewis -- 10. Placing local food in a cross-border setting / Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye -- 11. Agrarian clusters and chains in rural areas of Germany and Poland / Elmar Kulke -- 12. Farmer innovations in environmental management : new approaches to agricultural sustainability? / Mairi Jay -- 13. The region as organisation : differentiation and collectivity in Bordeaux, Napa, and Chianti Classico / Jerry Patchell -- 14. Creating trust through branding : the case of Northwest Ohio's greenhouse cluster / Neil Reid and Michael C. Carroll -- 15. Growing a global resource-based company from New Zealand : the case of dairy giant Fonterra / Christina Stringer. [et al.] -- 16. The commodity chain at the periphery : the spar trade of Northern New Zealand in the early 19th century / Michael Roche -- 17. Akaroa Cocksfoot : examining the supply chain of a defunct New Zealand agricultural export / Vaughan Wood -- 18. Biotic exchange in an imperial world : developments in the grass seed trade / Eric Pawson.