ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on emancipation as necessary to mediate conflicts between marketisation and social protection. It draws inspiration from Nancy Fraser’s 2013 book Fortunes of Feminism. The chapter utilises the three stage model that theorises the conflict between the forces of marketisation, social protection and emancipation. It provides an account of the English schooling context as a dis-embedded and re-embedded market in relation to the reform processes of autonomy and accountability. The chapter also provides new theoretical and conceptual insight into the ambivalences of emancipation arising in each focus area. It considers how moments of emancipation within each of the case studies align with marketisation and social protection and thus their implications for social justice. The academies movement is an example of a freeing up or dis-embedding of markets. This movement has devolved governance away from the state to schools.
