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List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Field of Capital
1. Education and the Clotting of Capital
2. Towards a Decolonial Analytic of Capital
Part II: Race, Repression, and Critical Pedagogy
3. Race, Reform, and Neoliberalism’s Elite Rationale
4. Repression, Violation and Education
5. Critical Pedagogy and a Generative Thematics of the Global
Part III: Practicing Emancipation
6. Pedagogy of the Anxious
7. Constituent Power, Ethics, and Democratic Education
8. Notes for a Revolutionary Curriculum
References
Index
About the author
Noah De Lissovoy is Professor of Cultural Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of Education and Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era (2015), Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation (2008), co-author of Toward a New Common School Movement (2015) and the editor of Marxisms and Education (2018).
Summary
Reframing central categories in Western critical thought, this book investigates the relationship between capitalism and coloniality in society and education, and reconceptualizes emancipatory theory and pedagogy in response. De Lissovoy exposes a logic of violation at the heart of capitalist accumulation and argues that we need to attend to ontological and epistemological orders of domination within which subjectivity takes shape. Systematically bridging the theoretical traditions of Marxism, Latin American decolonial thought, and critical pedagogy, De Lissovoy shows how a new critical imaginary can reorder curriculum in schools and other educational spaces, organize a form of learning beyond the capitalist imperatives of imposition and exploitation, and reconstruct pedagogical relationships in the mode of a decolonial and democratic commons.
Foreword
This book explores the relationship between capitalism and coloniality in society and education.
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Capitalism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Being stands apart from other projects in education, sociology and radical philosophy. De Lissovoy uniquely synthesizes traditions associated with Marxism and decolonial theory and constructs a new pedagogical imagination rooted in love, difference, and freedom. A vital intervention from one of the most important intellectuals writing in the Freirean tradition today.
