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  • Learning to Save the Future

    Rethinking Education and Work in an Era of Digital Capitalism

    by Alexander Means ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Mainstream economists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs claim that unfettered capitalism and digital technology can unlock a future of unbounded prosperity, create endless high paying jobs, and solve the world’s vast social and ecological problems. Realizing this future of abundance purportedly rests in the transformation of human potential into innovative human capital through new 21st century ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Teaching Beyond Dread

    Edited by Alexander Means, Yuko Ida, Matthew Myers ...
    This book explores how teaching endures in the age of pervasive dread. It asks: How does teaching refuse and counter dread's grip? What new stories of teaching might be told beyond the culture of dread?Dread is the prevailing mood of this era. Dread is an affliction of minds, bodies, and social life. Climate chaos, spiraling inequality, loss of community, cynicism, and escalating attacks on public ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Teaching Against the Machine

    Critical Pedagogy in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

    by Prof Alexander J. Means ...
    Series series Critical Directions in Education, Technology, and Politics
    This book is an experimental critical pedagogy of artificial intelligence in relation to futures of capitalism, thought, education, politics, and radical imagination.Teaching Against the Machineoffers a searing account of artificial intelligence as a cultural and pedagogical force in an era of systemic nihilism. Alexander J. Means shows how AI extracts from the living archive of human creativity ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Empire and Education

    Edited by Alexander J. Means, Amy N. Sojot, Yuko Ida, Manca Sustarsic ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism, ecological instability, racism and ethnic conflict, geopolitical tensions, and specters of war all haunt the global order. Education preforms a key role in producing the subjective capacities that nourish Empire within its current neoliberal form. Simultaneously, education and pedagogy contain ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform

    Edited by Kenneth J. Saltman, Alexander J. Means ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Education
    The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform examines educational reform from a global perspective. Comprised of approximately 25 original and specially commissioned essays, which together interrogate educational reform from a critical global and transnational perspective, this volume explores a range of topics and themes that fully investigate global convergences in educational reform policies ... Read more

    $187.00 USD

  • Education and Technological Unemployment

    Edited by Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Alexander J. Means ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation, and argues that countering and adapting to this challenge requires new methodological, philosophical, scientific, sociological, economic, ethical, and political perspectives that fundamentally rethink the categories of work and education. What is required is political will and social vision to respond to the question: What is the role of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Educational Commons in Theory and Practice

    Global Pedagogy and Politics

    Edited by Alexander J. Means, Derek R. Ford, Graham B. Slater ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Toward a New Common School Movement

    by Noah De Lissovoy, Alexander J Means, Kenneth J. Saltman ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Toward a New Common School Movement is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader redistribution of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Sociological Theory

    Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century

    by Michele Dillon ...
    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Gender, Work, and Economy

    Unpacking the Global Economy

    by Heidi Gottfried ...
    This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic transformations not only change the way we work, but how we live our lives.The full extent of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD