Society, Politics, and Education in Uncertain Times: Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging in International Contexts [Paperback]

Drawing on chapters from a selection of authors from the fields of education, philosophy, political science, and sociology this book presents provocations on how citizenship might be experienced, conceptualised, expressed, and practiced in a range of settings.

Part 1. Re-thinking Concepts of Citizenship and Political Education

1. Introduction?

2. Political education 'in [adjective] times': Predicating and answering to the epochal?

3. Individualism, whiteness and depoliticisation: Reframing neoliberal citizenship education in England as social, inclusive and political using a Butlerian lens?

4. The role of agency in the development of citizenship?

5. On the possibility of democratic citizenship education and decoloniality in (African) schools?

Part 2.?Forms and Expressions of Citizenship?

6. Between disenfranchisement and polarisation: Mapping youth online and school-related affective assemblages of civic participation?

7. produce, reduce, recycle  phonocenes of citizenship?

8. Protest songs as a language arts medium of citizenship education

Part 3. Extending the Practice of Citizenship?

9. The school as a civic institution: Learning and doing politics?

10. Phenomenology of sociality and relational accounts of personhood: reinstating the moral status of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties

11. Exploring the limits of youth participation: An ethnography of volunteering by vulnerable youths in the Philippines?

12. Critical citizenship after Black Lives Matter: The Case of Decolonising the Curriculum and the Neoliberal University?

13. Conclusion

Harry Dyer is Aly