The article critiques the tendency in the field of international education to theorize internationalization around the impacts of and policy responses to globalization in local contexts. The central argument of the article is that South Africa’s history and development prospects are so intricately bound up with those of its neighbors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region that it would be misleading for the country to be talked about in just national/local and global terms. To develop this argument on South Africa’s roles and situation in a regionally interconnected context, I draw on insights from an institutional ethnography of a top-rated, historically White South African public university. While local–global discourses were institutionalized nationally and institutionally through policies for transformation and internationalization, the conspicuous absence of formal institutional structures for regionalization shows the limitations of local–global or global north–south dichotomies in analyzing structures that operate both above and below the level of the nation-state.

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种族隔离之后的南非高等教育国际化的本地-全球二元化之外

这篇文章批评了国际教育领域的趋势，即围绕本地化对全球化的影响和对全球化的政策回应，对国际化进行理论化。这篇文章的中心论点是，南非的历史和发展前景与南部非洲发展共同体（SADC）地区的邻国错综复杂，以至于仅仅在本国/本地和全球条款。为了就区域互联互通的背景下南非的角色和状况提出这种论点，我借鉴了历史悠久的南非白人公立大学的制度民族志的见解。