Imagining Anti-oppressive Education Futures
Agitations for Justice
Archie Thomas editor Sophie Rudolph editor Aleryk Fricker editor Bonita S Cabiles editor Stephen Chatelier editor Elisa Di Gregorio editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:25th Sep '26
£41.99
This title is due to be published on 25th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Schools, universities and education more broadly are at the centre of multiple contestations over the past, present and future. In the urgency of climate change, artificial intelligence, threats to the rights of marginalised groups, the rise of war, and ongoing colonial and capitalist dominance, challenges for education abound. In addition, with increased state repression, there is a pressing need to rethink the strategies of activism and agitation for just societies.
This collection brings together scholars across a range of contexts who are grappling with these challenges and engaging a radical imagination through theorisation, experimentation and speculation, to transform education into a site of justice and possibility. The authors in this book speak back to dominant discourses and methods in education policy and practice, offering alternative ways of approaching and addressing policy dilemmas in areas such as LGBTQ, climate change and indigenous issues. Based on on-the-ground research, it collates a range of conceptual resources and tools, working to theorise, experiment and speculate as to how schools and education might address harm and inequality, envisioning and enacting different futures.
An essential read for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those engaged in education in schools and universities – including teachers, school leaders and parents – who are interested in the role of education in addressing issues of social justice in contemporary societies.
“This collection brings together imaginative, impassioned, and unapologetically radical scholarship on a diverse set of educational sites and themes. Attuned to questions of both theory and practice, this liberatory and pluriversal volume decisively repudiates the grim visions of colonialism and neoliberalism. The enlivening and experimental ‘agitations’ that it offers are an essential resource for researchers and educators in these difficult times.”
– Professor Noah De Lissovoy, Cultural Studies in Education, University of Texas at Austin, USA
"The editors have curated an inspirational collection that reminds us of the need to maintain hope in the possibilities that abound for forging kaleidoscopic futures in and through education. Embracing a theoretical, experimental and speculative stance, it promises to engender reflective action and transformative change, achieved with vigour and stealth.”
– Dr Sharon Walker, Lecturer in Racial Justice and Education, University of Bristol and Lead Co-convenor of the Race, Empire and Education Collective, UK
“A powerful and timely collection that positions education as a site of struggle, imagination, and collective action. Urgent as oppression intensifies globally, the book mobilises radical imagination through theorising, experimenting, and speculating, with agitations grounded in diverse places and contexts. It reminds us that building solidarities across differences is central to a praxis of hope. Importantly, it foregrounds early career scholars and graduate researchers, whose voices invite us to think, act, and relate differently in and through education”
— Dr Carla Nascimento Luguetti, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
ISBN: 9781041109358
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176 pages