ABSTRACT
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics, shown here in various forms, including the global pandemic, divisive populist politics, displacement of refugees and the landless, race and gender injustices, and neoliberal policies that constrain educational and social possibilities. Grouped around reflection, educational practice, and social activism, the authors show how educators engage these precarious conditions as they work toward a more interconnected, humane, and just society.
This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in social foundations of education, multicultural and social justice education, educational policy, and international and comparative education, sociology and anthropology of education, and cultural studies within education, among other fields.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Precarious Entanglements
chapter 2|17 pages
No Hablo Español
chapter 4|18 pages
Searching for Belonging
part II|67 pages
Educational Practice in Precarious Spaces
chapter 6|16 pages
Shifting Fields
chapter 7|17 pages
The Classroom as a Space for Power and Healing
chapter 9|16 pages
Fleeing Home, Finding Home, and Chasing Dreams
part III|70 pages
Pushing Back Against Precarity
chapter 10|17 pages
From Embodied to Spectral
chapter 11|19 pages
Activists' Use of Trauma-Informed Frameworks
chapter 12|17 pages
“Stones One Day, Flowers the Next”
chapter 13|15 pages
Radical Consciousness and Movements in Defense of Black Lives
part |10 pages
Conclusion