Table of Contents

Introduction Section 1: Concepts, politics and race in education Chapter 1. New relationalities of race and education? Computational futures and molecular spaces Kalervo N. Gulson Chapter 2. PISA, Tiger parenting, and private coaching: The discursive construction of 'the Asian' in globalised education policy field Keita Takayama Chapter 3. Decolonizing race theory: place, survivance & sovereignty Nikki Moodie Chapter 4. White governmentality, life history, and the cultural politics of race in remote settings: Situating the teacher/voluntourist Sam Schulz Section 2: Researching race in teaching and learning Chapter 5. Beyond 'getting along': Understanding embodied whiteness in educational spaces Jessica Walton Chapter 6. White microaffirmations in the classroom <-> Encounters with everyday race-making Greg Vass Chapter 7. The raced space of learning and teaching: Aboriginal voices speak back to the university Tracey Bunda Chapter 8. 'I have walked many miles in these shoes': Interrogating racialised subject positions through the stories we tell Audrey Fernandes-Satar & Nado Aveling Chapter 9. Decolonising colonial education researchers in 'near remote' parts of Australia. John Guenther, Eva McRae-Williams, Sam Osborne and Emma Williams Section 3: Continuities and ruptures in race and education Chapter 10. What if racism is a permanent feature of this society? Exploring the potential of racial realism for education researchers. Jacinta Maxwell Chapter 11. The two years that killed a First Nations University Kathryn Gilbey and Rob McCormack Chapter 12. The past in the present: Identifying the violence of success and the relief of failure Sophie Rudolph Chapter 13. What does theory matter? Conceptualising race critical research Sharon Stein & Vanessa Andreotti Chapter 14. Afterword - 'Critical Education for Critical Times' Zeus Leonardo

About the Author

Dr Gregory Vass is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Jacinta Maxwell is a Lecturer in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Dr Sophie Rudolph is a researcher at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia. Dr Kalervo N. Gulson is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research Training) in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Reviews

Despite the happy talk over the past decade of a ‘post-racial’ society, this book brings together a collection of essays that shows persuasively how racism continues to shape many of our discourses and institutions in education, and how it might be possible to employ a range of research strategies for unsettling practices that have disastrous consequences for the experiences and aspirations of students viewed as ‘others’.Fazal Rizvi, The University of Melbourne Australia