Cameron Mccarthy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692882 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cameron Mccarthy |
| NOMBRES | Cameron |
| APELLIDO | Mccarthy |
| FIRMA | MCCARTHY C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1946-1811 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 223 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
In Tribute to Norm
Conviviality and the making of difference
Our concern with conviviality in this special issue, 'Conviviality and the Making of Difference', emerges from an interest in interrogating and problematising how notions of the human and less than human come to be leveraged in the mobilisation of discourses and practices of conviviality in schools and society more broadly.We are particularly keen to understand the colonial logics that sustain the institutionalszation of conviviality in education…
The world before us
In reassessing globalization, contributors to this Special Issue collectively note the swirling, unstable set of forces that have followed in the wake of globalizing processes visited upon twenty-f
Space to breathe
The men who talk most about the valor of Lee and of the blood of the brave Confederate dead are those who never smelt powder or engaged in battle. Most of them were at a table, either on top or und
Spaces of New Colonialism
Reassessing globalization
Dynamics associated with globalization – as expressed in the intensification and movement of cultural and economic capital, mass migration, the amplification and proliferation of images via digital
Desirable and disposable
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Class Choreographies
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
Social class as flow and mutability
This article draws on ethnographic research that examines the contemporary articulation of class identity in the postcolonial elite school setting of Old College high school in Barbados. From the qualitative data derived from this study, we argue that social class is better conceived as a series of flows, mutations, performances and performatives. We complicate the common-sense notion that class is a stable structure that allows for the categoriz…
Gregory James Dimitriadis, 1969-2014
Mobilized Identities
The Uses of Culture
Governance through Philitainment
This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of "the rise of the ludic sublime," where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of "philitainment," Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed "communicative capitalism" and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, this case s…
Introduction
This special issue is based entirely on the research project called ‘Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography' and this opening essay introduces both the project and the essays to follow. It offers a justification for studying elite schools, elites and elitism and explains some of the project's guiding premises not the least being its deliberate departure from those studies of elite schools that are…
The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity
In her book, Neoliberalism as Exception, Aihwa Ong usefully observes that the North American university has been dirempted from it historical role of preparing young people for democratic citizenship. It has instead, according to Ong, become the great global marketplace and grand bazaar for international students' ambitions. In what follows, we draw on Ong's insights. Specifically, we report on a global ethnographic study that looks at the way in…
The Aftermath of Race
Contemporary racial theorization in education still separates race from the dynamics of our late-modern society. This essay aims to redirect the topic of race and education to a place that is considered outside the field of education, to the margin where education now is drawn into the fast moving currents of change fueled by the amplification of meanings and images in electronic mediation in the digital economy, in the volatile world politics po…
Unmasking Class and Tradition
Drawing on examples of cinematic and literary production, this chapter calls attention to the limitations of British cultural studies regarding topics on which the theorization of proponents has been long thought to be fundamentally secure. These topics are class and tradition. The chapter further maintains that the field‐bound, ethnographic, and center–periphery paradigm that has fueled the subcultural studies approach to the working class of cu…
Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality
Work’s Intimacy
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The material child
Teaching Difficult History
A fear of the past can inhibit the freedoms of the present as pedagogic practices that deny complex, and even contradictory, histories bind learners to normative narratives. The failure to recognize the complexities of difficult historical themes - presenting and representing them as something so much simpler so that they may fit in with dominant ways of being - disempowers both the 'ordinary' people who shaped history and those whose lives emerg…
The New Neoliberal Cultural and Economic Dominant
The fundamental insecurity and vulnerability with which we live has profound implications for education and for young people who must increasingly be prepared to live in a world that offers little recourse to personal, social or economic stability. This instability frames the need to move beyond conventionalism and the institutional practices of confinement to embrace more critical understandings and interventions in the field of education and in…
Race, Diversity, and Curriculum in the Era of Globalization
In the five chapters we review in this essay, the authors seek collectively, if fitfully, to make sense of the extraordinary changes now bearing down on 21st-century society. They are particularly
Race, text, and the politics of official knowledge
This paper deals with the discourses related to race and anti-racism in a social sciences textbook for grade 12 Ontario students that was published in 2002. It is argued that the complexities of race and anti-racism are not dealt with systematically and cohesively. The textbook does not adequately address the topics of race and racism within the present Canadian social structure, leaving the discussion of complex and controversial ideas concernin…
Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education
Introduction. Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple, Greg Dimitriadis, Lois Weis, and Cameron McCarthy Section One: Revisiting the New Sociology of Education 1. Retrieving the Ideological Past: Critical Sociology, Gender Theory and the School Curriculum 2. Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Re-Theorizing Reproduction 3. Schooling, Power, and the Exile of the Soul Sec…
Race, identity, and representation in education
Contradictions of power and identity
In this review essay, the author situates five recent articles on white identity and teacher education within the emergent fields of whiteness studies and critical race theory. He maintains that while the authors of these articles make a significant contribution to the field of race studies by expanding theories and methodologies of whiteness studies to education that there is a consistent failure to theorize race in the five articles. McCarthy a…
Space to breathe
The men who talk most about the valor of Lee and of the blood of the brave Confederate dead are those who never smelt powder or engaged in battle. Most of them were at a table, either on top or und
Introduction
This special issue is based entirely on the research project called ‘Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography' and this opening essay introduces both the project and the essays to follow. It offers a justification for studying elite schools, elites and elitism and explains some of the project's guiding premises not the least being its deliberate departure from those studies of elite schools that are…
Governmentality and the Sociology of Education
This paper argues that theorizations of the state which are sensitive to both its durability and its permeability, and theorizations which can account for the massive interconnections between local and global forces as well as different material and discursive sites are missing from contemporary work in the sociology of education. Drawing on Foucault's notion of 'governmentality' as a key resource for addressing this impasse, the authors highligh…
Stranger in the Village
In this article, the authors look at the theoretical and methodological implications of the autobiographical writings of James Baldwin for doing qualitative research in the related areas of youth identity formation and the production and circulation of meanings in popular culture. They argue that Baldwin's use of autobiography provides one very useful way to register important contradictions and tensions in the circulation of contemporary fashion…
Race, Diversity, and Curriculum in the Era of Globalization
In the five chapters we review in this essay, the authors seek collectively, if fitfully, to make sense of the extraordinary changes now bearing down on 21st-century society. They are particularly
Danger in the safety zone
Sociology and education theorists writing on the subject of racial antagonism have tended to ignore the critical role played by popular culture and the electronic media in the reproduction of racial antagonism (Giroux, 1994b). Although there is a rise of a multicultural literature within the field that has from its inception drawn attention to the representation of minorities in educational and cultural forms, such writing has concentrated mainly…
The Popular Racial Order of Urban America
This paper critically interrogates the prevailing contemporary figurations of so-called 'urban' popular culture as suggested within and against filmic narratives of sport and the racial logics of late-capitalism. Attempting to forge a contextual understanding of the conflicting representations of (urban) subjectivity, the authors locate 'urban' America within broader conjunctural developments that have given rise to its mainstream appellation. Th…
Introduction
Educating the American Popular
Drawing on the theories of identity formation in the writings of C. L. R. James (1978, 1993) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1967), Cameron McCarthy argues that contemporary film and television play a critical role in the production, coordination and channelling of suburban resentment and retributive morality onto their central target: the depressed inner city. McCarthy also looks at the discursive impact of resentment on the sense of capacity and agenc…
The Problem with Origins
Desirable and disposable
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Social class as flow and mutability
This article draws on ethnographic research that examines the contemporary articulation of class identity in the postcolonial elite school setting of Old College high school in Barbados. From the qualitative data derived from this study, we argue that social class is better conceived as a series of flows, mutations, performances and performatives. We complicate the common-sense notion that class is a stable structure that allows for the categoriz…
Governance through Philitainment
This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of "the rise of the ludic sublime," where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of "philitainment," Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed "communicative capitalism" and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, this case s…
The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity
In her book, Neoliberalism as Exception, Aihwa Ong usefully observes that the North American university has been dirempted from it historical role of preparing young people for democratic citizenship. It has instead, according to Ong, become the great global marketplace and grand bazaar for international students' ambitions. In what follows, we draw on Ong's insights. Specifically, we report on a global ethnographic study that looks at the way in…
Teaching Difficult History
A fear of the past can inhibit the freedoms of the present as pedagogic practices that deny complex, and even contradictory, histories bind learners to normative narratives. The failure to recognize the complexities of difficult historical themes - presenting and representing them as something so much simpler so that they may fit in with dominant ways of being - disempowers both the 'ordinary' people who shaped history and those whose lives emerg…
Race, text, and the politics of official knowledge
This paper deals with the discourses related to race and anti-racism in a social sciences textbook for grade 12 Ontario students that was published in 2002. It is argued that the complexities of race and anti-racism are not dealt with systematically and cohesively. The textbook does not adequately address the topics of race and racism within the present Canadian social structure, leaving the discussion of complex and controversial ideas concernin…
Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
What is the nature and role of intellectual work in modern society? How is the role of the intellectual to be defined and discussed? What is the relation ship of the intellectual to popular culture, popular life, and the wish fulfill ment of the masses? These are critical questions that the postcolonial intel lectual, C.L.R. James, addressed in his theoretical writings. This article offers an assessment of James, focusing sharply on his discussio…
The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination
(2000). The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 59-74
The Politics of Culture
Membership in a minority group is not a sufficient basis for theorizing about cultural influences on learning. For example, I have found that some members of my research team studying their own local communities initially did not recognize some relevant cultural data, including cultural assumptions underlying their own behaviors. (John Ogbu, 1992, p. 6)
The Politics of Education
Spaces of New Colonialism
The New Neoliberal Cultural and Economic Dominant
The fundamental insecurity and vulnerability with which we live has profound implications for education and for young people who must increasingly be prepared to live in a world that offers little recourse to personal, social or economic stability. This instability frames the need to move beyond conventionalism and the institutional practices of confinement to embrace more critical understandings and interventions in the field of education and in…
Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination
(2004). Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination: Wilson Harris and the pedagogical implications of the carnivalesque. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 201-213
The Politics of Education
Race and Curriculum
Race and curriculum mainstream accounts of racial inequality in schooling the multicultural solution Neo-Marxists approaches to racial inequality - the subordination of the problem of race nonsynchrony and social difference - an alternative to current radical accounts on race and schooling racial inequality and the challenge of educational reform
Race and Curriculum
The Politics of Culture
Membership in a minority group is not a sufficient basis for theorizing about cultural influences on learning. For example, I have found that some members of my research team studying their own local communities initially did not recognize some relevant cultural data, including cultural assumptions underlying their own behaviors. (John Ogbu, 1992, p. 6)
Toni Morrison and the Curriculum
Toni Morrison and the Curriculum
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCameron McCarthyAndrea Michaud and Margaret Murphy deserve special thanks for their superb editorial and research assistance. Lisa Cartwright and Patricia Irvine provided valuable comments and encouragement. We also acknowledge Stephen David, Shuaib Meachan, Heriberto Godina, Carrie Wilson-Brown, Alicia Rodriguez and K.E. Supriya, who reviewed first drafts of the articles and provided helpful comments to…
The hypocrisy of completeness
There is a scene in the cultural writings of English colonialism which repeats so insistently after the early nineteenth century — and, through that repetition, so triumphantly inaugurates a literature of empire — that I am bound to repeat it once more. It is the scenario, played out in the wild and wordless wastes of colonial India, Africa, the Caribbean, of the sudden, fortuitous discovery of the English book. (Bhabha, 1986: 163) Proof like Dou…
The Problem with Origins
Introduction
Imperial Fictions
(1995). Imperial Fictions: school music and the production of adolescent identity in the postcolony. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 331-345
The Organization of Affect
(1995). The Organization of Affect: popular music, youth and intellectual and political life ‐‐ An Interview with Larry Grossberg. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 407-421
The Palace of the Peacock
(1996). The Palace of the Peacock: Wilson Harris and the Curriculum in Troubled Times. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 25-37
The uses of culture
This essay directly challenges the easy opposition of the canon to non‐Western and Third World literature and the curricular project of content addition and replacement that now guides mainstream multicultural frameworks. The authors argue that this opposition is illegitimate and that, further, it is not empirically based. Instead, they insist that even a cursory glance at the literature of the Hispanic, African American and Caribbean writers rev…
Danger in the safety zone
Sociology and education theorists writing on the subject of racial antagonism have tended to ignore the critical role played by popular culture and the electronic media in the reproduction of racial antagonism (Giroux, 1994b). Although there is a rise of a multicultural literature within the field that has from its inception drawn attention to the representation of minorities in educational and cultural forms, such writing has concentrated mainly…
Educating the American Popular
Drawing on the theories of identity formation in the writings of C. L. R. James (1978, 1993) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1967), Cameron McCarthy argues that contemporary film and television play a critical role in the production, coordination and channelling of suburban resentment and retributive morality onto their central target: the depressed inner city. McCarthy also looks at the discursive impact of resentment on the sense of capacity and agenc…
Measuring the Moment in A Time to Kill
(1998). Measuring the Moment in A Time to Kill: Using the Contemporary South as a Pedagogical Strategy for the Study of Race, Class, and Gender. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Living with Anxiety
In this article, Cameron McCarthy takes us to the terrain of the new dynamics taking place in the U.S. racial order at the end of the century. These developments are powerfully articulated in the aggravated representation of racial identities in popular discourses. Specifically, McCarthy alerts us to the new ideological configurations in our popular culture and civic life that foreground the dangerous expansion of identity politics into the white…
Governmentality and the Sociology of Education
This paper argues that theorizations of the state which are sensitive to both its durability and its permeability, and theorizations which can account for the massive interconnections between local and global forces as well as different material and discursive sites are missing from contemporary work in the sociology of education. Drawing on Foucault's notion of 'governmentality' as a key resource for addressing this impasse, the authors highligh…
The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination
(2000). The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 59-74
Stranger in the Village
In this article, the authors look at the theoretical and methodological implications of the autobiographical writings of James Baldwin for doing qualitative research in the related areas of youth identity formation and the production and circulation of meanings in popular culture. They argue that Baldwin's use of autobiography provides one very useful way to register important contradictions and tensions in the circulation of contemporary fashion…
Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
What is the nature and role of intellectual work in modern society? How is the role of the intellectual to be defined and discussed? What is the relation ship of the intellectual to popular culture, popular life, and the wish fulfill ment of the masses? These are critical questions that the postcolonial intel lectual, C.L.R. James, addressed in his theoretical writings. This article offers an assessment of James, focusing sharply on his discussio…
After 9/11-Thinking About the Global, Thinking About Postcolonial
Contradictions of power and identity
In this review essay, the author situates five recent articles on white identity and teacher education within the emergent fields of whiteness studies and critical race theory. He maintains that while the authors of these articles make a significant contribution to the field of race studies by expanding theories and methodologies of whiteness studies to education that there is a consistent failure to theorize race in the five articles. McCarthy a…
Afterword
Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination
(2004). Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination: Wilson Harris and the pedagogical implications of the carnivalesque. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 201-213
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