Curriculum and the Problem of Violence (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
About the author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Problem of the Present
	Organisation of the Book
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Problematising Violence
	A Curriculum of Love and Hate
	Violence as a Curricular Topic
	Militarism: A Common Thread in our Violence
		Violence and Anti-Politics
		Politics as War and the Uses and Abuses of History
	The Fascistic Present
	Nemesis
	Note
	References
Chapter 3: Curriculum Studies, Genealogy, and the Power of Life and Death
	Curriculum Studies, Synoptic Texts, and Intellectual History
	Genealogy
	Fascism
		Fascism’s Characteristics
			The Cult of Tradition
			The Rejection of Modernity
			The Cult of Action for Action’s Sake
			Critique is Unacceptable
			Fear of Difference
			Fascism Appeals to the Frustrated
			The Obsession with Conspiracies
			Humiliation
			Glorification of Permanent War
			Scorn for the Weak
			The Cult of Heroism and the Cult of Death
			The Will to Power as Sexual Questions
			Qualitative Populism
			Newspeak
	Biopower
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Regeneration through Violence
	Regeneration through Violence
		The Myth Deconstructed
	Frontier Manhood
		Manly Men: An Imperial Imperative
		Lynching
	A Modern Captivity Tale
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Bringing War Home
	Bringing War Home
		A Return to Oklahoma City
		The Vietnam Narrative
	Christian Nationalism
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 6: The Great Replacement: International Ethnonationalism
	Sexuality, Gender, Race, Religion, and Ethnonationalism
		Uganda
		India
		China
	Education as a Target of US and European Ethnonationalists
		Sexual Anxiety and the Assault on the Academy
		The Authoritarian Assault on Education
		Religious Nationalism
		The Threat to Education and Democracy
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Non-Violence and the Future of Democracy
	Prologue to the Chapter
	Liberal Democracy is in Trouble
	Violence and Non-violence
	Relationality, Grievability, Equality
	Affect and Non-violence
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Affirmative Biopower, Truth, and the Prophetic
	The Biopolitical Contradiction
	Parrhēsia
	An Affirmative Biopolitical Turn?
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: Epilogue: The Return to the Self
	Thoughts and Prayers
	Rhetoric and the Force Field of Violence
	The Return to the Self
	Is the Future History?
	Note
	References
Index