1st Edition
Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts Reflection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change
Chapter 1. Navigating Education in Precarious Times
Ann Frkovich, Amira Proweller & Karen Monkman
Part I. Precarious Entanglements: Situating the Self
Chapter 2. No Hablo Español: Contributions to the Loss of the Spanish Language Among Latinxs in the United States
Erica Zuniga Fuentes
Chapter 3. Invisibility and Hypervisibility of Arab American Female Students in Times of Heightened Anti-Arab and Anti-Islamic Sentiment
Sawsan Jaber
Chapter 4. Searching for Belonging: How Transnationalism Influences Chinese American College Students’ Ethnic Identity Construction
Yan Wang & Beth L. Goldstein
Chapter 5. Reflections on Privilege, Oppression, and Possibilities in Times of Radical Change
Beth S. Catlett & Amira Proweller
Part II. Educational Practice in Precarious Spaces
Chapter 6. Shifting Fields: Japanese University Students’ Habitus During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Richard H. Derrah, Phillip M. Clark & Kevin Ballou
Chapter 7. The Classroom as a Space for Power and Healing: Examining the Case of New York City After Trump’s Election
Salma Waly
Chapter 8. Vignettes From the Underground: The Difficulty of Challenging Educational Spaces
Ann Frkovich & Tameka Carter-Richardson
Chapter 9. Fleeing Home, Finding Home, and Chasing Dreams: Refugee Journeys to New Spaces for Belonging
Yacoub Aljaffery
Part III. Pushing Back Against Precarity
Chapter 10. From Embodied to Spectral: Teaching Transnational Feminisms in Times of Protest and Pandemic
Sabrina González & Cara K. Snyder
Chapter 11. Activists’ Use of Trauma-Informed Frameworks: Insights From Popular Education Spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jennifer Lee O’Donnell, Rebecca John & Guadalupe Valdivia
Chapter 12. "Stones One Day, Flowers the Next": The Struggle for Itinerant Schools in the Landless Workers Movement (MST), Brazil
Nisha Thapliyal
Chapter 13. Radical Consciousness and Movements in Defense of Black Lives: The Lineage of Detroit’s League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Promise of Education for Liberation
Bianca Ayanna Suárez
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Precarity in Educational Spaces: Reflecting Back and Moving Forward
Amira Proweller, Ann Frkovich & Karen Monkman
Biography
Karen Monkman is Professor Emerita of Education at DePaul University, USA.
Ann Frkovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Research at Concordia University, USA.
Amira Proweller is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Department of Teacher Education at DePaul University, USA.
