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In the case of the neoliberal reform of education, instead of addressing the systemic inequalities that produce hunger, housing insecurity, lack of health care, and so forth—all of which could improve a child’s educational performance in ways more substantial than any single school-focused intervention—the neoliberal’s approach is hoist all responsibility on the individual who is supposed to hustle, innovate, or gig themselves out of poverty.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
The third, picking up the Foucauldian theme of the tie
between power and knowledge, is the claim, in Haugaard’s words, that people interpret their social world as ‘part of the natural order of things’ and thus accept a ‘social ontology’ that specifies what is ‘real’ and ‘essential’ and that is a ‘tacit interpretative horizon of social actors’ that ‘creates conditions of possibility for social action’ and thereby marks what, in his view, distinguishes the fourth dimension from the third
(Haugaard and Pettit 2017: 28). Here indeed is a topic of the greatest present-day relevance, not least in relation to the continuing, unfinished and important task of denaturalizing race and gender.
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, a large number of Punjabis migrated to the USA and Canada in search of a livelihood. Many of them were patriots, and it was their effort that led to the formation of the Gadar Party in San Francisco in 1913 with Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna as President and Lala Hardayal as Secretary.
History of the Communist Movement in India
Unknown
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