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Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education takes up this crucial and urgent
task. Dozens of emerging and leading activists, organizers, and scholars assemble
a collective body of concepts to interrogate, provoke, and mobilize contemporary
political, economic, and social struggles. This wide-ranging edited collection
covers key and innovative philosophical and educational themes—from animals,
sex, wind, and praxis, to studying, podcasting, debt, and students.
This fijield-defijining work is a necessary resource for all activists and academics
interested in exploring the latest conceptual contributions growing out of the
intersection of social struggles and the university.
Contributors are: Rebecca Alexander, Barbara Applebaum, David Backer,
Jesse Bazzul, Brian Becker, Jesse Benjamin, Matt Bernico, Elijah Blanton,
Polina-Theopoula Chrysochou, Clayton Cooprider, Katie Crabtree, Noah De
Lissovoy, Sandra Delgado, Dean Dettlofff, Zeyad El Nabolsy, Derek R. Ford, Raúl
Olmo Fregoso Bailón, Michelle Gautreaux, Salina Gray, Aashish Hemrajani, Caitlin
Howlett, Khuram Hussain, Petar Jandrić, Colin Jenkins, Kelsey Dayle John, Lenore
Kenny, Tyson E. Lewis, Curry Malott, Peter McLaren, Glenn Rikowski, Marelis
Rivera, Alexa Schindel, Steven Singer, Ajit Singh, Nicole Snook, Devyn Springer,
Sara Tolbert, Katherine Vroman, Anneliese Waalkes, Chris Widimaier, Savannah Jo D
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Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education
Critical Understanding
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Keywords in Radical
Philosophy and
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Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements
Edited by
Derek R. Ford
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Cover illustration: Curtain Shadow, © Lizz Thabet
All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.
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Title: Keywords in radical philosophy and education : common concepts for
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
1 An Introduction, a Wager
Long Live Radical Philosophy and Education! 1
Derek R. Ford, Anneliese Waalkes, Savannah Jo Wilcek
and Clayton Cooprider
2 Animals 7
Kelsey Dayle John
3 Anti-Fascism
Late-Stage Capitalism and the Pedagogical Resurgence of
Anti-Fascism 19
Colin Jenkins
4 Becoming
Or Why Difference is Fundamental to Education for Emancipation 36
Jesse Bazzul
5 Borders
Pedagogies and Epistemologies 50
Rebecca Alexander
6 China
Reform and Revolution in the People’s Republic 68
Ajit Singh
7 Coloniality
Key Dimensions and Critical Implications 83
Noah De Lissovoy and Raúl Olmo Fregoso Bailón
8 Deaf
A Culturally-Sustaining Philosophy for Deaf Education 98
Steven J. Singer and Katherine M. J. Vroman
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9 Debt
Towards Constructing an Education-Debt Apparatus Lexicon 116
Jason Thomas Wozniak
10 Déclassée
Socialist Pedagogy and the Struggle for a Worldview at the End of
the World 135
Elijah Blanton
11 Dialectical Materialism
A Philosophical Framework, a Theoretical ‘Weapon’ and a Framing
Research Tool 147
Polina-Theopoula Chrysochou
12 Digital
The Three Ages of the Digital 161
Petar Jandrić
13 Discussion
A Radical View 177
David I. Backer
14 Empowerment 191
Sara Tolbert, Alexa Schindel, Salina Gray, Lenore Kenny,
Marelis Rivera, Nicole Kessler Snook and Chris Widimaier
15 Groundings
A Revolutionary Pan-African Pedagogy for Guerilla Intellectuals 210
Jesse Benjamin and Devyn Springer
16 History
Reorienting the History of Education toward the Many 226
Curry Malott
17 Libidinal 242
Katie Crabtree
18 Listening 255
Zeyad El Nabolsy
Contents vii
19 Needle
Syringe Exchange and Care in the Resistance to Biomedical
Governmentality 271
Aashish Hemrajani
20 Pneumatic
Education, Air, and the Common 285
Derek R. Ford
21 Podcasting
Pedagogy, and the Inheritance of Clandestine Broadcasts 301
Matt Bernico and Dean Dettloff
22 Postsecular
Thinking in the Gap, or Hannah Arendt and the Prospects for a
Postsecular Philosophy of Education 317
David J. Wolken
23 Praxis
Revolutionary Theory and Practice in the Present 328
Brian Becker
24 Press
Radical Black Media 344
Khuram Hussain
25 Privatisation
Education and Commodity Forms 355
Glenn Rikowski
26 Sex
The Pedagogical Stakes 375
Caitlin Howlett
27 Students 386
Sandra Delgado
28 Study
A Disinterested Passion 398
Tyson E. Lewis
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29 Truth
The Importance of Understanding Discourse in Social Justice Education,
the Truth and Nothing but the Truth? 408
Barbara Applebaum
30 Unconscious
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and the Macrostructural
Unconscious 426
Peter McLaren
31 Unionism
Contemplating a Radical Social Movement Unionism for the Post-Janus
US Labor Movement 477
Michelle Gautreaux
32 Wind 490
Weili Zhao
Index 503
Acknowledgements
I’d like to acknowledge the support of the DePauw University Faculty
Development Program, which provided three students and me with the
funding to carry this project out. I’d also like to give a warm thanks to these
students—Savannah Jo Wilcek, Anneliese Waalkes, and Clayton Cooprider—
for their incredible help throughout this process. Series editors Brad Porfilio
and Bill Reynolds provided important guidance throughout the conception
and production process.
A few chapters in the book originally appeared elsewhere. Peter McLaren’s
entry was published as “Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim
Against the Macrostructural Unconscious,” in Critical Education; Barbara
Applebaum’s entry on truth was first published in the 2016 Philosophy of
Education Yearbook; Glenn Rikowski’s chapter on privatization was first
published in the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge Jodi Menke for helping me set up my
voicemail as well as the students in my spring 2017 Radical Philosophy and
Education seminar for providing the impetus for this book.
