Neoliberalism and revolution: Marxism for emerging critical educators
(2022)
Book Chapter
Alpesh Maisuria's Outputs (43)
Marxism and education introduction: A personal historical contour of Marxism (2022)
Book Chapter
Maisuria, A (2022) Chapter 1: In. Maisuria, A (vol Ed.)
Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education (2022)
Book
This encyclopaedia showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice. The entries have been written by 51 leading authors from across the globe. The 39 entries cover an impressive range of contemporary issues and historical p... Read More about Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education.
Hegemony (2020)
Book Chapter
Hegemony is one the most powerful concepts to understand reality in any social scientist's toolbox. Hegemony comes from the term - hegemon meaning leader. Gramsci’s works presented the provocation: how can power be won, and how can it be sustained. T... Read More about Hegemony.
A book review symposium: Henry A. Giroux (2020) On Critical Pedagogy [2nd Edition] (2020)
Journal Article
Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education (2020)
Journal Article
The starting point for this article is an explication of the essence of Marxism, which is argued as the most efficacious theoretical framework for understanding the current historical conjuncture. I then provide a description of the development of ca... Read More about Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education.
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University (2019)
Book
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University investigates the impact of neoliberalism on academics in today’s universities. Considering the experiences of early career researchers as well as more experienced academics, it outlines the changing... Read More about Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University.
Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility (2018)
Journal Article
In this article I introduce and develop neoliberalism through a discussion of Marxism and the way that classed mystification and feasibility are crucial concepts for understanding the maintenance of neoliberalism, and revolutionary possibilities. The... Read More about Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility.
Politics, public pedagogy and action: Beyond a pedagogy of hope (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Class consciousness and education in Sweden: A Marxist analysis of revolution in a social democracy (2017)
Book
Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedi... Read More about Class consciousness and education in Sweden: A Marxist analysis of revolution in a social democracy.
Ethnography and Education (2017)
Book Chapter
As described in Beach and Dovemark?s 2007 book, Education and the Commodity Problem , critical researchers have identified two fundamental roles for modern-day schools within capitalist states. These are the ideological and material roles and functio... Read More about Ethnography and Education.
Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education: A Book Review Symposium (2017)
Journal Article
Mystification of production and feasibility of alternatives Social class inequality and education (2017)
Book Chapter
This chapter develops a critique of the neoliberal capitalist mode of production through discussing the role and function of fee-paying private schools in the first section, of which I explain that there are two sorts: one for the ruling class and th... Read More about Mystification of production and feasibility of alternatives Social class inequality and education.
The neoliberalization of higher education in England: An alternative is possible (2017)
Journal Article
© Author(s) 2017. In this article, we provide a critical explanation and critique of neoliberalism. We attempt an innovative focus ranging from the wider contemporary political and ideological shifts, to the way in which neoliberal policy specificall... Read More about The neoliberalization of higher education in England: An alternative is possible.
The Neoliberalisation of Higher Education in England: An Alternatives is Possible (2017)
Journal Article
In this article, we provide a critical explanation and critique of neoliberal policy. We attempt an innovative focus ranging from the wider contemporary political and ideological shifts, to specific higher education influences and consequences, of ne... Read More about The Neoliberalisation of Higher Education in England: An Alternatives is Possible.
Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article
This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.
Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
Journal Article
The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.
Testing times and the thirst for data: For what? (2016)
Other
The emphasis on tests has made teachers and pupils depressed, harm themselves, and even turn suicidal. High-stakes testing and an oppressive data-drive accountability system de-humanise what should be an experience of enrichment, creativity and fun.... Read More about Testing times and the thirst for data: For what?.
The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
Journal Article
The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.
Thatcher the State School Snatcher (2015)
Digital Artefact
Blogpost for The BERA Blog: Research Matters. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/thatcher-the-state-school-snatcher