What does it mean to educate from multiple perspectives? This evocative and necessary collection addresses those who want to teach outside of traditional historical assumptions. Subversive Pedagogies highlights the complexities of colonialism, treaties, land, dispossession, gender, activism, and change when dominant educational systems explore their own iniquities and oppressions in the classroom. At times, such teaching proves futile; it also proves essential. From the powerlessness of being a student to the embodiment of being a professor, from building alliances with Mikmaq water protectors to creative truth-telling about the occupation of Mori lands, from transforming the pedagogical frameworks of the classroom to building justice in unjust institutions, the complexity and honesty of these essays provide an invaluable guide for the committed teacher. The book demonstrates how to work within neoliberal and imperial institutions, illustrating how their strategies and experiences can transform our very understanding of educations possibilities.
Kennan R. Ferguson,University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
This book breathes back sinews and flesh onto the exhausted bones of pedagogies in Higher Education. It asks, can these bones of broken, cartesian pedagogies live? And it then finds answers in places where vulnerability is held safely; where visions are embodied, where failure is a finding and where young and old may dream dreams of relation and joy. It is a life-giving book for draining times. Can these bones live? Read and find out how?
Alison Phipps,UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts, University of Glasgow, Scotland
This edited collection affirms that to teach global politics rigorously is to teach it subversively, and that to do so might require pedagogies that embrace joy and love. This is a much needed book that will help us to find our way through and beyond present-day managerial and reactionary assaults on university teaching worldwide.
Robbie Shilliam,Johns Hopkins University, USA
In a moment when so much of the learning needed to midwife the flourishing of non-colonial, non-capitalist forms of life is being suffocated by the ongoing project of colonial modernity, this book shows how subverting its deadly logics is a way of drawing breath with other possibilities. Vibrant examples of embodied, relational and place-based pedagogies both within and beyond universities from around the world open onto an expanded landscape of activism that reveals already-existing spaces of possibility within the system and gestures towards alternative futures.
Sarah Amsler,University of Nottingham, UK
SUBVERSIVE PEDAGOGIES
This interdisciplinary volume examines the place of critical and creative pedagogies in the academy and beyond, offering insights from leading and emerging international theorists and scholar-activists on innovative theoretical and practical interventions for the classroom, the university, and the public sphere.
Subversive Pedagogies draws attention to creative and critical pedagogies as a resource for engaging pressing problems in global politics. The collection explores the radical potential of pedagogy to transform students, scholars, citizens, and institutions. It brings together scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory and theatre studies, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts. These diverse voices explore innovative pedagogical practices that extend our understanding of where pedagogy happens, invite critical assessment of the ways the neoliberal university shapes and restricts pedagogical engagement, and offer both theoretical and practical tools to explore more creative and broader understandings of what pedagogy can and should do.
The book will appeal to scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory, theatre studies, and education theory, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts.
Kate Schick is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Claire Timperley is Lecturer in Political Science at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Interventions
Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick
The Series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first five years we have published 60 volumes.
We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics, and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical, and textual studies in international politics.
We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just contact us for advice or proposal guidelines. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors:
- Jenny Edkins () and
- Nick Vaughan-Williams ().
As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting In this spirit The Edkins Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.
- Emotional Practices and Listening in Peacebuilding Partnerships
The Invisibility Cloak
Pernilla Johansson
- Subversive Pedagogies
Radical Possibility in the Academy
Claire Timperley and Kate Schick
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/series/INT
First published 2022
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