Judith Butler, Race and Education

• Main Author: Chadderton, Charlotte (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Ethnicity.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Education-Philosophy.; Ethnicity in Education.; Ethnicity Studies.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Philosophy.

This book provides an analysis of race and education through the lens of the work of Judith Butler. Although Butler tends to be best known in the field of education for her work on gender and sexuality, her work more broadly encompasses the functioning of power and hegemonic norms and the formation...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Judith Butler, Race and Education: what can a Butlerian framework provide?
• Chapter 3. The work of Judith Butler and the study of race
• Chapter 4. Race as a hegemonic norm: citizenship education and the production of raced British subjects
• Chapter 5. Making whiteness and acting white: the performativity of race and race as a performative
• Chapter 6. Aspirations and intelligible subjects
• Chapter 7. The 'Prevent' agenda in Higher Education: Sovereignty and state power to desubjectivate
• Chapter 8. The role of race in research through a 'Butlerian' lens: Representation, knowledge and voice
• Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Butlerian approach to social transformation in education.