Capitalisms Educational Catastrophe

And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!

Ricardo D. Rosa, Joao J. Rosa

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781433124587
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453914663
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Business Education

Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to global markets, which annihilate our souls. The authors analyze the «crisis» in U.S. urban education through visceral narratives of social control while resisting the tendency to make the United States the epicenter of educational «reform» analysis. They explore neoliberal capitalism and processes of racialization as interdependent. The neoliberalization of education is having disproportionate negative implications for communities of color. More profoundly, neoliberal ideology is reworking processes of racialization and the way race is inscribed in discourse and bodies. The book is optimistic in sharing what might be done to inspire the mass withdrawal of consent not only to regressive regimes of high-stakes standardized testing, but to the entire edifice of neoliberal imperialism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Charting the Neoliberal Nightmare and the Moral Outrage
• Chapter 2. Capital Movement and Global Displacement: Curricular Fatalities in the Age of Neoliberalism—the Case of Cape Verde
• Chapter 3. Performance Contracting and Supplemental Educational Services: Other Altars of Neoliberal Language Deception and Citizen Salvation
• Chapter 4. Education by Corporate Priorities, Youth Minds and Bodies Under Arrest, and the Complexities of Resistance and Resignation
• Chapter 5. Raising Disquieting Questions in the Struggles Against Urban Violence
• Chapter 6. The Advancing Endgame Revolt! Dialogues with Activists and Community Organizers in the Trenches
• Appendix
• Afterword
• References