1st Edition

Subjectivities, Identities, and Education after Neoliberalism Rising from the Rubble

By Abraham P. DeLeon Copyright 2019
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, DeLeon presents a critique of neoliberalism and present times through a metaphor of social collapse and considers what remains once the dust has settled for a different kind of person to emerge. Engaging a variety of social, political and educational theories, along with pop culture and literature, DeLeon positions humanity at the edges of collapse and what will emerge after the... Read more

Introduction



Chapter 1: Neoliberal Fantasies and Current Predicaments





Chapter 2: Intermezzo – Destruction





Chapter 3: Outside the Margins of Reality





Chapter 4: Symbolism



Chapter 5: Awakening the Imagination



Afterword: Waking up to a New World



References

Biography

Abraham P. DeLeon is Associate Professor of Social Foundations at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

"Abraham P. DeLeon deconstructs states’ dominance over identity management that lurks around our daily lives. He does so by unleashing tethered subjectivities via the radical questioning of power, and the nature of knowledge with interdisciplinary theories such as poststructuralism, postcolonialism, anarchist theory, and critical animal studies. [...]
He encourages researchers to take inspiration from multiple disciplines along with what has traditionally been excluded from academia, including a variety of artistic, philosophical, poetic, linguistic, educational and theoretical domains."

-Insil Jeon, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities College of Education and Human Development