IMMISERATION,
CAPITALISM AND EDUCATION: AUSTERITY, RESISTANCE AND REVOLT – A NEW EDITED
COLLECTION BY DAVE HILL
Immiseration, Capitalism and Education: Austerity,
Resistance and Revolt
Edited by Dave Hill
Institute for Education Policy Studies
2013
ISBN: 978-0-9522042-3-7
This is an important and astonishing book. It is a Marxist
book. It systematically charts and critiques the havoc being wreaked by
neoliberal and neoconservative Capitalism on society, on schooling/ schools and
on higher education, across five countries: the USA ,
England , Turkey , Ireland
and Greece .
Following a theoretical chapter on Immiseration Capitalism, the first part of
the book examines in detail the destructiveness and degradation effected by
national and transnational Capital within these five societies, and the
privatising, marketising, commodifying, degrading and impoverishing impacts
within these five countries’ broader society, within/on the schooling system
and within / on higher education.
Very importantly, the book goes beyond critique, beyond
deconstruction, beyond anger and analysis. In Part Two of the book, leading
Marxist analysts and activists from these five countries examine the Resistance
to neoliberalising/neoconservatising policy and practice. In each case writers
answer the question: What is the ‘Resistance’? Where is the Resistance? How is
it Organised? How Successful is it? What are the Barriers to its Effectiveness?
How can it be Developed to be more Effective?
In the Third and Final section, writers look to past and
contemporary successful examples of Socialist Education, in the former Soviet
bloc, and in Latin America, Venezuela .
Again, writers, while noting the varied successes of such socialist or Marxist
education, always remain critical- and self-critical.
The Conclusion, building on the critique within,
summarises, and looks to the future, in terms of building the disparate
resistance within schooling, higher education, communities and within the
national societies- learning internationally. This book, written by noted and
leading Marxist authors and activists, is an important contribution to Marxist
education and broader theory- but also a spur to revolutionary anti-capitalist
praxis-in education and beyond.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Peter McLaren
Introduction: Dave
Hill
PART 1: Austerity
Capitalism, Immiseration and Education
1. Immiseration
Capitalism Curry Malott, Dave Hill & Grant Banfield
2. Austerity
Capitalism and Education in Greece
Panagiotis Sotiris
3. Austerity
Capitalism and Education in Ireland
Martin Power, Micheal O’Flynn, Aline Courtois & Margaret Kennedy
4. Austerity
Capitalism and Education in Britain
Dave Hill, Christine Lewis, Alpesh Maisuria & Patrick Yarker
5. Austerity
Capitalism and Education in Turkey
Fevziye Sayilan & Nuray Turkmen
6. Austerity
Capitalism and Education in the USA
Curry Malott & Faith Agostinone-Wilson
PART 2: Activism
within/ against Immiseration Capitalism
7. Resistance in Greece Leonidas
Vatikiotis and Maria Nikolakaki
8. Resistance in Ireland Micheal
O’Flynn, Martin Power, Conor McCabe & Henry Silke
9. Resistance in Britain Joyce
Canaan, Dave Hill, & Alpesh Maisuria
10. Resistance in Turkey Kemal
İnal & H. Tuğba Öztürk
11. Resistance in
the USA
Curry Malott & Faith Agostinone-Wilson
PART 3: Peripheries
12. Immiseration
Capitalism or Twenty-First century Socialism? Mike Cole & Peter McLaren
13. A view from the
post-socialist ‘new periphery’ Bill Templer
14. Conclusion: Capitalism,
Resistance and Dave Hill, Bill Templer, Panagiotis Sotiris,
What is to be Done?
Grant Banfield & Faith Agostinone-Wilson
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Dave Hill is a Marxist academic and political and educational
activist. He has fought ten elections in England at local, national and
European levels, been an elected trade union regional leader and, when the
Labour Party was left-wing, was a Labour Group (Council) Leader. In terms of
Direct Action, he has recently been tear-gassed while on anti-government
demonstrations in Athens and Ankara and is an activist in TUSC (the Trade
Unionist and Socialist Coalition) and in Left Unity. He co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical
left Educators in 1989 and chaired it until 2001, founded the Institute for
Education Policy Studies (www.ieps.org.uk)
in 1989 and set up the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com) in 2003. Since then, it, a free
online peer-reviewed journal, has been downloaded a million times- free of
charge. The journal went into print production in 2012 (available for
purchase). He is Research Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University,
England, and Visiting Professor of Critical Policy and Equality Studies at the
University of Limerick, Ireland, and Visiting Professor of Education at the Universities of Middlesex, London,
England, and Athens, Greece.
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