Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy)

The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone global has empowered societies once condemned to imprisonment in premodernity or tradition to make their own claims on modernity, on the basis of those very traditions, as filtered through experiences of colonialism, neocolonialism, or simple marginalization by the forces of globalization. Global modernity appears presently not as global homogeneity, but as a site of conflict between forces of homogenization and heterogenization within and between nations. Prominent in this context are conflicts over different ways of knowing and organizing the world. The essays here, dealing for the most part with education in the United States, engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change that are heard from a broad spectrum of social, ethnic, and indigenous perspectives. Crucial to the essays' critique of hegemony in contemporary pedagogy is an effort shared by the contributors, distinguished scholars in their various fields, to overcome area and/or disciplinary boundaries and take the wholeness of everyday life as their point of departure. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Part I. Perspectives on Pedagogy 1. Introduction: Our Ways of Knowing—and What to Do About Them 2. Who Will Educate the Educators? Critical Pedagogy in the Age of the New Imperialism 3. Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neoliberalism: Making the Political More Pedagogical 4. How New Is the World of the Internet? Transnationalism, Technology, and Identity Part II. Our Ways of Knowing 5. Anthropology, History, and Aboriginal Rights: Politics and the Rise of Ethnohistory in North America in the 1950s 6. Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Prison-Industrial Complex: Reflections on “Freedom” and Capture, Praxis and Immobilization 7. The Drug War Is the New Jim Crow: Legislating Black Educational Exclusion in the Post–Civil Rights Era 8. Who Are You Rooting For? Transnationalism, the World Cup, and War Part III. Counterknowledges 9. Agreement Place Boundaries versus Separatist Borders and the Essential versus Essentialism: Implications from Indigenous Social Thought for Transcommunal Cooperation among Rooted Communities 10. “Strategic Parochialism” and the Politics of Speaking Contexts: Philippine Insurgent Nationalism and Critical Discourse Formation in a Postcolonial Academy 11. Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past? Understanding Resistance to Contemporary Salmon Farming in Kwakwaka’wakw Territory 12. Challenging Infallible Histories: A Miraculous Revival of Dead Indians 13. California Colonial Histories: The Integration of Historical Documents, Native Oral Traditions, and Archaeology Part IV. Education for Community 14. Gandhi and the Social Scientists: Some Thoughts on the Categories of Dissent and Possible Futures 15. Thinking Dialectically Toward Community About the Editor and Contributors