Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest

325 Pages·2006·1.341 MB·English

by  Arif Dirlik

PEDAGOGIES OF THE GLOBAL
Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy
A Series from Paradigm Publishers
Edited by Henry A. Giroux
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by Paul Street
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by Madeleine Kahn
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by Mark Olssen
Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (2006)
edited by Arif Dirlik
Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies (2006)
by John K. Wilson
P E D A G O G I E S
O F T H E G L O B A L
K n o w l e d g e i n t h e
H u m a n I n t e r e s t
edited by
ARIF DIRLIK
First published 2006 by Paradigm Publishers
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Pedagogies of the global : knowledge in the human interest / edited by Arif Dirlik.
p. cm. — (Cultural politics & the promise of democracy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-237-7
ISBN-10: 1-59451-237-X
1. Knowledge, Sociology of. 2. Critical pedagogy. 3. Globalization—Social aspects.
I. Dirlik, Arif. II. Cultural politics and the promise of democracy.
HM651.P43 2006
306.4’2—dc22
2006001594
ISBN 13 : 978-1-59451-237-7 (hbk)
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To the memory of Yuji Ichioka, friend and comrade in the
struggle against injustice
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Contents
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Part I. Perspectives on Pedagogy
1. Introduction: Our Ways of Knowing—and 3
What to Do About Them
Arif Dirlik
2. Who Will Educate the Educators? Critical Pedagogy 19
in the Age of the New Imperialism
Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur
3. Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neoliberalism: 59
Making the Political More Pedagogical
Henry A. Giroux
4. How New Is the World of the Internet? 77
Transnationalism, Technology, and Identity
Alexander Woodside
Part II. Our Ways of Knowing
5. Anthropology, History, and Aboriginal Rights: Politics and 89
the Rise of Ethnohistory in North America in the 1950s
Arthur J. Ray
6. Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Prison-Industrial Complex: 113
Reflections on “Freedom” and Capture, Praxis and Immobilization
Dylan Rodríguez and Viet Mike Ngo
7. The Drug War Is the New Jim Crow: Legislating Black 133
Educational Exclusion in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Susan Searls Giroux
8. Who Are You Rooting For? Transnationalism, 141
the World Cup, and War
Robert S. Chang
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Contents
Part III. Counterknowledges
9. Agreement Place Boundaries versus Separatist Borders and the 165
Essential versus Essentialism: Implications from Indigenous Social
Thought for Transcommunal Cooperation among Rooted
Communities
John Brown Childs
10. “Strategic Parochialism” and the Politics of Speaking Contexts: 187
Philippine Insurgent Nationalism and Critical Discourse Formation
in a Postcolonial Academy
S. Lily Mendoza
11. Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past? Understanding 217
Resistance to Contemporary Salmon Farming in
Kwakwaka’wakw Territory
Dorothee Schreiber and Dianne Newell
12. Challenging Infallible Histories: A Miraculous 233
Revival of Dead Indians
Jason T. Younker
1 3. California Colonial Histories: The Integration of Historical 255
Documents, Native Oral Traditions, and Archaeology
Kent G. Lightfoot
Part IV. Education for Community
14. Gandhi and the Social Scientists: Some Thoughts on the 275
Categories of Dissent and Possible Futures
Vinay Lal
15. Thinking Dialectically Toward Community 299
Grace Lee Boggs
About the Editor and Contributors 313
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Part I
Perspectives on Pedagogy