1st Edition
Neoliberalism, Cities and Education in the Global South and North
Introduction: Neoliberalism, cities and education in the Global South/North Kalervo N. Gulson and Thomas C. Pedroni 1. Contesting global neoliberalism and creating alternative futures David W. Hursh and Joseph A. Henderson 2. Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: producing Hyderabad as a ‘global city’ Sangeeta Kamat 3. Urban shrinkage as a performance of whiteness: neoliberal urban restructuring, education, and racial containment in the post-industrial, global niche city Thomas C. Pedroni 4. Contesting the city: neoliberal urbanism and the cultural politics of education reform in Chicago Pauline Lipman 5. Porto Alegre as a counter-hegemonic global city: building globalization from below in governance and education Luis Armando Gandin 6. Mini Schools: the new global city communities of Vancouver Ee-Seul Yoon 7. Neoliberal governmentality, schooling and the city: conceptual and empirical notes on and from the Global South Kalervo N, Gulson and Aslam Fataar
Biography
Kalervo N. Gulson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia. His primary areas of scholarship are educational policy, race and ethnicity studies, and social and cultural geography. Recent work includes Education policy, space and the city: Markets and the (in)visibility of race (Routledge, 2011).
Thomas C. Pedroni is Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies at Wayne State University, USA. His scholarship centres on race, agency, and inequality in neoliberalizing cities. His new edited volume, Educational markets and the dispossessed, is forthcoming with Teachers College Press.
