Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
About the Book Series
Neoliberalism is degrading and destroying public education systems globally. The local characteristics may vary, the results are common - increased inequalities in schooling, vocational and higher education, inferior work conditions for teachers and faculty, and detheorized and technicized delivery systems of increasing conservative curricula at all levels of education. Neoliberalism - marketization, privatization, pre-privatization, commodification - is increasingly accompanied by forms of authoritarian conservatism - secular in some countries, religious in others - with increased control, surveillance, and forced abandonment of critique. Such neoliberal and conservative assaults on public education and on broader aims than those which are couched purely in terms of economic/human capital - meet with increased resistance by students, teachers, communities, social movements, and in some countries, political parties.
The Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism series features books by new as well as established scholars that throw a harsh spotlight on the conditions under which education currently labors and offers analysis, hope, and resistance in the name of more collective, egalitarian education for social and for economic justice.
Please send inquiries and proposals to: Dave Hill ([email protected] / [email protected]) and Kirsty Hardwick ([email protected]).
Interrogating Neoliberalism and Cruel Optimism in Education: The Radical Potency of Despair
1st Edition
By Louise Azzarello
March 30, 2025
This book is a philosophical examination of the ways in which neoliberalism underpins and impedes public education. It proposes that education’s adoption of neoliberal logic generates a sense of despair amongst educators, who often enter the profession with the hope of building a better, more just ...
Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising
1st Edition
By Zachary A. Casey
January 31, 2025
Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising incisively critiques the consciousness-raising project that has been so central to contemporary critical pedagogy. The book argues that consciousness-raising work in formal educational settings over the past three decades has largely ...
Predatory Practices in Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship
1st Edition
Edited
By Pejman Habibie, Ismaeil Fazel
December 19, 2024
This volume offers comprehensive examination of “predatory” practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences. Chapters engage multiple methodologies, including corpus, discourse, and genre analysis, as well as ...
Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate: Towards a Non-derivative Curriculum Reason
1st Edition
Edited
By João M. Paraskeva
November 29, 2024
This volume represents the first exploration of caste in the field of curriculum studies, challenging the ongoing silence around the issue of caste in education and curriculum theory. Presenting comprehensive critical examination of caste as a category of domination and oppression in the colonial ...
Towards Rural Education for the Common Good: Resisting Capitalist and Neoliberal Priorities in Rural Schooling in the United States
1st Edition
By Jason A. Cervone
October 09, 2024
This book examines the current and future state of rural education in North America through the lens of Franco Berardi’s Futurability. Through critical examination of examples and current trends toward corporatization and privatization of rural education, the volume highlights how future ...
Teaching Labor History in Art and Design: Capitalism and the Creative Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyunghee Pyun, Vincent G. Quan
June 14, 2024
Drawing from American history, fashion design, history of luxury, visual culture, museum studies, and women’s history, among others, this book explores the challenges, rewards and benefits of teaching business and the labor history of art and design professions to those in higher education. ...
Progressive Neoliberalism in Education: Critical Perspectives on Manifestations and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Ajay Sharma, Mardi Schmeichel, Elizabeth Wurzburg
May 27, 2024
This volume makes the novel contribution of applying Nancy Fraser’s concept of progressive neoliberalism to education in order to illustrate how social justice efforts have been co-opted by neoliberal forces. As well as recognising the lack of consensus surrounding the very nature of Fraser’s ...
Neoliberalism and Public Education Finance Policy in Canada: Reframing Educational Leadership as Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Wendy Poole, Vicheth Sen, Gerald Fallon
September 25, 2023
This book uses a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to demonstrate how neoliberal forces have been manifested through changes to K–12 public education finance policy in British Columbia, Canada between 2001 and 2015. The text offers in-depth critical policy analysis to illustrate how the ...
State Schooling and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Contesting Lived Inequalities through Participatory Methods
1st Edition
By Sharon Jones
September 19, 2023
This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critical ethnographic methods with participatory and visual research, it foregrounds the experiences and recollections of working class adults in relation to ...
Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University: Academic Labour, Commodification, and Value
1st Edition
By John Preston
May 31, 2023
Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book ...
Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class: A Critical Marxist Ethnography in a Former Mining Community
1st Edition
By Kat Simpson
January 09, 2023
Based on a critical Marxist ethnography, conducted at a state primary school in a former coalmining community in the north of England, this book provides insight into teachers’ perceptions of the effects of deindustrialisation on education for the working class. The book draws on the notion of ...
The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education: Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well-Being, and Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitja Sardoč
September 26, 2022
This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering, and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, ...