MACMILLAN Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education

This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints––educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience. The flashpoints will ignite critical reflection and dialogue about the formation of the self, identity, and social inequality on the level of the preconscious body. Review “Pedagogies in the Flesh functions as an invitation, a gift really, to become perplexed, unsettled, and undone. Because of this, the text is unsafe and dangerous in all the right ways. Through a multiplicity of differential and situational vignettes, and within the context of lived ambiguity, undaunting honesty, and courageous vulnerability, this text offers a rich and much needed rethinking of what it means to tarry, to linger, with embodied flashpoints or disruptive moments that un-suture fixed ways of being, feeling, and knowing. The text lays bare the taken-for-granted, rendering it uncanny, and thereby opens new embodied and critical phenomenological spaces for being otherwise. It is a must read!” (George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, USA) “The first-person case studies included in this brilliant transdisciplinary collection provide the reader with flashpoints―those unnerving incidents or moments in which the flesh educates us.  The reader will be touched, shocked, frustrated, and/or connected to the embodied narratives that leave us asking more questions than answers about what it means to be made different, visible, invisible, or “other". With discussion questions at the end of each narrative, the book is a wonderful tool for critical educators concerned with engaging questions of difference.” (Dolores Delgado Bernal, Professor of Education and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah, USA) “The body teaches, the body misdirects; the body discloses, the body conceals; the body assures, the body betrays. In Pedagogies in the Flesh, a strikingly original collection, the editors have brought together a wide range of short but highly illuminating personal testimonials, micro-realizations and epiphanies, that in their painful physicality reveal in sharply ineluctable form the broader structures of domination and discrimination that constitute the (literal) intercorporeal body politic. It is an affective phenomenology of excluded flesh from which we all can learn, however positioned we are by our own.” (Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, USA) "How we understand pedagogy, including anti-oppressive pedagogy, cannot help but to be already-framed by partial and normative narratives, which is why we must constantly look for resources to approach teaching and learning differently, including when flesh, body, and materiality come to bear on moments that we presumed made them irrelevant. Vivid and discomforting, Pedagogies of the Flesh insightfully dissect a range of experiences that should spark in each of us a remembrance of our own embodied experiences even as we pause to examine their implications for troubling pedagogies of our own." (Kevin Kumashiro, author of Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice, 3rd edition) “What can our bodies teach us? How does the flesh speak? What do we learn when we listen closely to our embodied flashpoints? This thoughtful, provocative book offers innovative insights into new forms of embodied knowing–flashpoints that guide us into creating more equitable classrooms and compassionate educators.” (AnaLouise Keating, Professor, Department of Multicultural Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas Woman's University, USA) “Pedagogies in the Flesh is powerfully engaging, and ideal for stimulating classroom discussions on difference, diversity and othering.” (Carl Grant, Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) “Drawing from scholars across disciplinary fields, this is a powerful book tha