Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Policy, and Education

The Editors: Cameron McCarthy is Professor and University Scholar in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored and co-authored numerous books, including Race Identity and Representation in Education (2nd edition, 2005); Foucault, Cultural Studies and Governmentality (2003); and Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial (2001). He is the co-editor of Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy (Peter Lang, 2007). Cathryn Teasley is Adjunct Professor of Curriculum, Instruction and School Organization at the University of A Coruña. Her work is focused on Roma/Gypsy identity rights through education, as is reflected in her recent contribution to the volume Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy (2007).

Contents: Cathryn Teasley/Cameron McCarthy: Introduction: Redirecting and resituating cultural studies in a globalizing world – Álvaro Pina: Freedom, community, and Raymond Williams’s project of a common culture – Susan Harewood: Manning the borders: Blackness, nationalisms, and popular culture – Teresa San Román: Relativism, racism, and philanthropy – Eduardo Terrén: Remaking civic coexistence: Immigration, religion and cultural diversity – Teun A. van Dijk: Elite discourse and institutional racism – Michael D. Giardina/Cameron McCarthy: The popular racial order of «urban» America: Sport, identity, and the politics of culture – Jin-kyung Park: Governing doped bodies: The World Anti-Doping Agency and the global culture of surveillance – Emily Noelle Ignacio: Pro(fits) of a future not our own: Neoliberal reframings of public discourse on social justice – Jurjo Torres Santomé: School culture and the fight against exclusion: An optimistic curriculum – Mar Rodríguez Romero: Educational change, cultural politics, and social reinvention – Dolores Juliano: The challenges of migration: Anthropology, education, and multiculturalism – Mariano Fernández-Enguita: Ethnic group, class, and gender: Paradoxes in the education of Moroccans and Roma in Spain – Juan José Bueno Aguilar: New racisms in Spanish society – Cathryn Teasley: Roma youth at school: Instituting inclusion from a legacy of exclusion – Cameron McCarthy: Understanding the neoliberal context of race and schooling in the age of globalization – James G. Ladwig: Coda: Terrorism, globalization, schooling, and humanity.