Jennifer A Sandlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 108972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Sandlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandlin |
| SIGNATURE | SANDLIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0737-9864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Viral grifters, clickbait messiahs, and platform prophets: The ascension of conspirituality curriculum and pedagogy
No Man's Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film
This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian 'eco-horror' film within the so-called 'Anthropocene' era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald's critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror's reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and sett…
Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the 'Joy' of Waste
Born largely from discourses on environmental sustainability, the contemporary minimalist movement has produced a new relationship to consumer objects. Where the accumulation of objects once conferred the status of wealth and prosperity under capitalism, minimalism aims to rethink the object as a spiritual extension of our inner lives. This is nowhere as evident than in the writing of Marie Kondo, whose teachings on 'joyous' decluttering has enra…
Plastic Fantasies: Globalization and the Japanese Cultural Imaginary
This essay broaches the location of cultural production and circulation through an analysis of popular aesthetics and fantasy structures specific to the postindustrial milieu. While tracing the influence of American popular children's culture throughout Japan during post-World War II occupation, this essay demonstrates the rise of the Japanese cultural industry as a unique response to and anticipation of the pressures and anxieties of globalizati…
It's Called a Hustle, Sweetheart”: Black Lives Matter, the Police State, and the Politics of Colonizing Anger in Zootopia
Happily (n)ever after: The cruel optimism of Disney’s romantic ideal
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Magic everywhere: Mapping the Disney curriculum
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
(Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer culture
This article focuses on the intersection of three areas of Peter Jarvis’s work that have profoundly influenced the field of adult education generally and the authors own research trajectories, in particular: (a) learning from everyday life and in social context, (b) incidental and tacit learning in consumer societies in a globalised world (i.e. market) and (c) adult learning, citizenship and activism. Wright and Sandlin outline how Jarvis’ work h…
Problematizing public engagement within public pedagogy research and practice
In this article, we explore issues related to how scholars attempt to enact public pedagogy (i.e. doing ‘public engagement’ work) and how they research public pedagogy (i.e. framing and researching artistic and activist ‘public engagement’ as public pedagogy). We focus specifically on three interrelated issues we believe should be addressed by scholars as they continue to theorize, enact, and analyze public pedagogies in the broader public sphere…
Escape from Tomorrow: Disney, institutionalized whiteness, and the difficult knowledge of being
Princesses transformed into ghouls. Psychedelic teacup rides. Simulated suicide. The world’s most famous theme park turned into a vomitorium. ... And you thought this was the happiest place on earth
Voluntary Simplifiers, Spirituality, and Happiness
In this article, we explore the connections between voluntary simplicity (VS), people who are dedicated to consuming less material goods, and Western spirituality. We investigate how voluntary simplifiers connect their practices of simplicity with their concepts and enactments of Western spirituality. First, we propose two categories of voluntary simplifiers identities based on interviews with individuals practicing VS: (1) spiritual voluntary si…
Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure and the eternal recurrence of whiteness
In this article, we examine how Disney participates in an affective economy through an analysis of how it engages with pleasure, and ask questions about what Disney’s manufacturing and selling of pleasure does, pedagogically. We posit that Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure, which operate from the notion that escape is attainable via the pleasurable experiences offered at Disney parks, teach us how to be particular kinds of Disney subjects who escap…
Pop Culture Pedagogies: Process and Praxis
As Miller (1999) explained, “it is increasingly important for educators to take seriously the processes by which media texts are produced and disseminated, and to understand the ways in which media images and constructions pervade all our lives” (p. 234). Taking popular culture seriously means making a purposeful commitment to bring popular culture into the classroom. Rather than scripted instructional strategies based on generalized research, co…
Learning, Becoming, and the Unknowable: Conceptualizations, Mechanisms, and Process in Public Pedagogy Literature
Consuming pedagogies: Controlling images of women as consumers in popular culture
We seek to understand how, by engaging in various sites of consumption, we learn particular gendered, raced and classed consumer subjectivities that often uphold patriarchal consumer capitalism. Drawing from academic literature on the history of consumption, we examine the historical construction of shopping and consumption as ‘feminine’ domains and explore how current discourses about females and consumerism continue to construct women as partic…
Mapping the Complexity of Public Pedagogy Scholarship: 1894–2010
The term public pedagogy first appeared in 1894 and has been widely deployed as a theoretical construct in education research to focus on processes and sites of education beyond formal schooling, with a proliferation of its use by feminist and critical theorists occurring since the mid-1990s. This integrative literature review provides the first synthesis of public pedagogy research through a thematic analysis of a sample of 420 publications. Fin…
Resistance on Aisle Three: Exploring the Big Curriculum of Consumption and the (Im)Possibility of Resistance in John Updike’s “A&P”
In this article, we examine John Updike’s short story “A&P” and its depiction of the grocery store as a curricular space re/presenting consumption and resistance to it. We position Updike’s fictional A&P as a space where the “big curriculum” (Schubert, 2006a Schubert, W. H. (2006a). Focus on the Big Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 3(1), 100–103.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) of consumption is enacted in everyday lif…
Now I Ain't Sayin' She a Gold Digger: Wal-Mart Shoppers, Welfare Queens, and Other Gendered Stereotypes of Poor Women in the Big Curriculum of Consumption
In this article, which we present in a format informed by critical performance ethnography/pedagogy, we take up the issue of how we are 'taught into' the ideology of consumerism through examining the dominant discourses about (poor) women as shoppers that circulate in popular and political discourses and that work to uphold particular hegemonic ideologies about how to consume and how to behave as consumers within a capitalist economic system. We …
Handbook of Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Shopocalypse
Learning to survive the ‘Shopocalypse’: Reverend Billy's anti-consumption ‘pedagogy of the unknown’
This paper explores the 'social movement learning' operating within one site of critical public pedagogy and, specifically, examines how the anti-consumption activist group Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping encourages transitional spaces of learning through a 'pedagogy of the unknown.' Bill Talen, a.k.a. 'Reverend Billy', is an anti-consumption activist who utilizes performance art as a form of critical public pedagogy. Through an an…
Homophobia and heterosexism in a college of education: A culture of fear, a culture of silence
In this study, we examine how broad heteronormative discourses circulate, become embodied within, negotiated by, and potentially resisted within a university, a college of education, and educators themselves. We pay special attention to how heteronormative discourses at Southwestern University (SWU) impact the various roles this college of education undertakes to train professionals in a range of human service occupations, most notably K‐12 schoo…
Tourism and Cultural Sustainability: Towards an Eco-cultural Justice for Place and People
while studies of tourism have progressed beyond older discourses of “negative” and “positive” impacts to more nuanced understandings of the interrelatedness, complexity, and local-global scale in which tourism plays out, cultural considerations continue to lag in sustainable tourism; the dynamism and intangible aspects of culture make it especially elusive and difficult to address “cultural sustainability” and ethical issues that arise in this co…
Shaping Youth Discourse About Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook's Public Pedagogy
As youths spend more time engaged in social media and informal learning experiences online, they interact with the public pedagogy of technological spaces. The public pedagogy of technological spaces, specifically Facebook, functions to create a habitus for the way youths act and respond in digital discourses and digital culture. This article contends that Facebook's public pedagogy seeks to shape how young people view technology, and we examine …
Inquiry as Answerability: Toward a Methodology of Discomfort in Researching Critical Public Pedagogies
In this article, the authors argue that inquiry into critical public pedagogies, public sites of counterhegemonic educational activity, requires that researchers' epistemological, representational, and ethical obligations extend to examine how their practices might undermine the political possibilities of these sites, diminish the transformative potential that public pedagogies hold, and ultimately reinscribe normative, limiting notions of educat…
Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy
Culture jamming, the act of resisting and re-creating commercial culture in order to transform society, is embraced by groups and individuals who seek to critique and (re)form how culture is created and enacted in our daily lives. In this article, we explore how two groups—Adbusters and Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping—use culture jamming as a means of resisting consumerism. We theorize how culture jamming as practiced operates as c…
Inquiry as Answerability: Toward a Methodology of Discomfort in Researching Critical Public Pedagogies
In this article, the authors argue that inquiry into critical public pedagogies, public sites of counterhegemonic educational activity, requires that researchers' epistemological, representational, and ethical obligations extend to examine how their practices might undermine the political possibilities of these sites, diminish the transformative potential that public pedagogies hold, and ultimately reinscribe normative, limiting notions of educat…
Learning, Becoming, and the Unknowable: Conceptualizations, Mechanisms, and Process in Public Pedagogy Literature
Deviance, Dissonance, and Détournement: Culture jammers` use of emotion in consumer resistance
Because emotion plays such a large part in the creation of the hegemony of consumerist ideology, we contend that any complete understanding of consumer resistance movements must also take into account the role of emotion in fighting against consumerist ideologies and global corporate control. In this article, we theorize about the role emotion plays in consumer resistance social movements — especially those using the resistance tactic of culture …
Shaping Youth Discourse About Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook's Public Pedagogy
As youths spend more time engaged in social media and informal learning experiences online, they interact with the public pedagogy of technological spaces. The public pedagogy of technological spaces, specifically Facebook, functions to create a habitus for the way youths act and respond in digital discourses and digital culture. This article contends that Facebook's public pedagogy seeks to shape how young people view technology, and we examine …
Decluttering the Pandemic: Marie Kondo, Minimalism, and the 'Joy' of Waste
Born largely from discourses on environmental sustainability, the contemporary minimalist movement has produced a new relationship to consumer objects. Where the accumulation of objects once conferred the status of wealth and prosperity under capitalism, minimalism aims to rethink the object as a spiritual extension of our inner lives. This is nowhere as evident than in the writing of Marie Kondo, whose teachings on 'joyous' decluttering has enra…
Homophobia and heterosexism in a college of education: A culture of fear, a culture of silence
In this study, we examine how broad heteronormative discourses circulate, become embodied within, negotiated by, and potentially resisted within a university, a college of education, and educators themselves. We pay special attention to how heteronormative discourses at Southwestern University (SWU) impact the various roles this college of education undertakes to train professionals in a range of human service occupations, most notably K‐12 schoo…
Consuming pedagogies: Controlling images of women as consumers in popular culture
We seek to understand how, by engaging in various sites of consumption, we learn particular gendered, raced and classed consumer subjectivities that often uphold patriarchal consumer capitalism. Drawing from academic literature on the history of consumption, we examine the historical construction of shopping and consumption as ‘feminine’ domains and explore how current discourses about females and consumerism continue to construct women as partic…
Tourism and Cultural Sustainability: Towards an Eco-cultural Justice for Place and People
while studies of tourism have progressed beyond older discourses of “negative” and “positive” impacts to more nuanced understandings of the interrelatedness, complexity, and local-global scale in which tourism plays out, cultural considerations continue to lag in sustainable tourism; the dynamism and intangible aspects of culture make it especially elusive and difficult to address “cultural sustainability” and ethical issues that arise in this co…
(Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer culture
This article focuses on the intersection of three areas of Peter Jarvis’s work that have profoundly influenced the field of adult education generally and the authors own research trajectories, in particular: (a) learning from everyday life and in social context, (b) incidental and tacit learning in consumer societies in a globalised world (i.e. market) and (c) adult learning, citizenship and activism. Wright and Sandlin outline how Jarvis’ work h…
Problematizing public engagement within public pedagogy research and practice
In this article, we explore issues related to how scholars attempt to enact public pedagogy (i.e. doing ‘public engagement’ work) and how they research public pedagogy (i.e. framing and researching artistic and activist ‘public engagement’ as public pedagogy). We focus specifically on three interrelated issues we believe should be addressed by scholars as they continue to theorize, enact, and analyze public pedagogies in the broader public sphere…
Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure and the eternal recurrence of whiteness
In this article, we examine how Disney participates in an affective economy through an analysis of how it engages with pleasure, and ask questions about what Disney’s manufacturing and selling of pleasure does, pedagogically. We posit that Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure, which operate from the notion that escape is attainable via the pleasurable experiences offered at Disney parks, teach us how to be particular kinds of Disney subjects who escap…
Popular culture, public pedagogy and perspective transformation: The Avengers and adult learning in living rooms
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of popular culture, especially prime‐time television, on women viewers’ identity development. More specifically, this study explores one television show, the 1962–1964 Cathy Gale episodes of The Avengers, as a portal to adult learning. We explored how television, as a form of public pedagogy, can help facilitate the formation of a critical or feminist identity among adult learner viewers. Th…
Happily (n)ever after: The cruel optimism of Disney’s romantic ideal
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Pop Culture Pedagogies: Process and Praxis
As Miller (1999) explained, “it is increasingly important for educators to take seriously the processes by which media texts are produced and disseminated, and to understand the ways in which media images and constructions pervade all our lives” (p. 234). Taking popular culture seriously means making a purposeful commitment to bring popular culture into the classroom. Rather than scripted instructional strategies based on generalized research, co…
Now I Ain't Sayin' She a Gold Digger: Wal-Mart Shoppers, Welfare Queens, and Other Gendered Stereotypes of Poor Women in the Big Curriculum of Consumption
In this article, which we present in a format informed by critical performance ethnography/pedagogy, we take up the issue of how we are 'taught into' the ideology of consumerism through examining the dominant discourses about (poor) women as shoppers that circulate in popular and political discourses and that work to uphold particular hegemonic ideologies about how to consume and how to behave as consumers within a capitalist economic system. We …
Magic everywhere: Mapping the Disney curriculum
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
Resistance on Aisle Three: Exploring the Big Curriculum of Consumption and the (Im)Possibility of Resistance in John Updike’s “A&P”
In this article, we examine John Updike’s short story “A&P” and its depiction of the grocery store as a curricular space re/presenting consumption and resistance to it. We position Updike’s fictional A&P as a space where the “big curriculum” (Schubert, 2006a Schubert, W. H. (2006a). Focus on the Big Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 3(1), 100–103.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) of consumption is enacted in everyday lif…
Learning to survive the ‘Shopocalypse’: Reverend Billy's anti-consumption ‘pedagogy of the unknown’
This paper explores the 'social movement learning' operating within one site of critical public pedagogy and, specifically, examines how the anti-consumption activist group Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping encourages transitional spaces of learning through a 'pedagogy of the unknown.' Bill Talen, a.k.a. 'Reverend Billy', is an anti-consumption activist who utilizes performance art as a form of critical public pedagogy. Through an an…
Trowels, trenches and transformation: A case study of archaeologists learning a more critical practice of archaeology
The purpose of this research was to explore how archaeologists who are working at a new archaeological project in Yucatan, Mexico have arrived at new understandings and practices of archaeology that are more environmentally friendly and community inclusive. We position these archaeologists as adult learners, and, using the framework of critical transformational learning, we explore how the transformational journeys of these archaeologists are int…
No Man's Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film
This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian 'eco-horror' film within the so-called 'Anthropocene' era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald's critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror's reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and sett…
It's Called a Hustle, Sweetheart”: Black Lives Matter, the Police State, and the Politics of Colonizing Anger in Zootopia
Voluntary Simplifiers, Spirituality, and Happiness
In this article, we explore the connections between voluntary simplicity (VS), people who are dedicated to consuming less material goods, and Western spirituality. We investigate how voluntary simplifiers connect their practices of simplicity with their concepts and enactments of Western spirituality. First, we propose two categories of voluntary simplifiers identities based on interviews with individuals practicing VS: (1) spiritual voluntary si…
From critical vision to critical practice: Exploring the process of critical transformational learning among archaeologists
This case study examines a group of archaeologists working at a new project that strives to be more environmentally friendly and community inclusive, and positions these archaeologists as adult learners who are simultaneously creating a new vision of archaeology and learning to enact new forms of archaeological practice. Using the framework of critical transformational learning, we explore how the journeys of these individual archaeologists are i…
Contradictions and compromise: The curriculum-in-use as negotiated ideology in two welfare-to-work classes
The purpose of this study is to explore how ideologies about work and education are enacted and negotiated in educational programmes for welfare recipients. Data for this study were collected over a six-month period in two publicly funded educational programmes for welfare recipients in a southern state of the USA. Data consisted of interviews, classroom observations, official documents and curriculum materials, and informal conversations with te…
Contradictions and compromise: The curriculum-in-use as negotiated ideology in two welfare-to-work classes
The purpose of this study is to explore how ideologies about work and education are enacted and negotiated in educational programmes for welfare recipients. Data for this study were collected over a six-month period in two publicly funded educational programmes for welfare recipients in a southern state of the USA. Data consisted of interviews, classroom observations, official documents and curriculum materials, and informal conversations with te…
From critical vision to critical practice: Exploring the process of critical transformational learning among archaeologists
This case study examines a group of archaeologists working at a new project that strives to be more environmentally friendly and community inclusive, and positions these archaeologists as adult learners who are simultaneously creating a new vision of archaeology and learning to enact new forms of archaeological practice. Using the framework of critical transformational learning, we explore how the journeys of these individual archaeologists are i…
Trowels, trenches and transformation: A case study of archaeologists learning a more critical practice of archaeology
The purpose of this research was to explore how archaeologists who are working at a new archaeological project in Yucatan, Mexico have arrived at new understandings and practices of archaeology that are more environmentally friendly and community inclusive. We position these archaeologists as adult learners, and, using the framework of critical transformational learning, we explore how the transformational journeys of these archaeologists are int…
Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy
Culture jamming, the act of resisting and re-creating commercial culture in order to transform society, is embraced by groups and individuals who seek to critique and (re)form how culture is created and enacted in our daily lives. In this article, we explore how two groups—Adbusters and Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping—use culture jamming as a means of resisting consumerism. We theorize how culture jamming as practiced operates as c…
Deviance, Dissonance, and Détournement: Culture jammers` use of emotion in consumer resistance
Because emotion plays such a large part in the creation of the hegemony of consumerist ideology, we contend that any complete understanding of consumer resistance movements must also take into account the role of emotion in fighting against consumerist ideologies and global corporate control. In this article, we theorize about the role emotion plays in consumer resistance social movements — especially those using the resistance tactic of culture …
Popular culture, public pedagogy and perspective transformation: The Avengers and adult learning in living rooms
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of popular culture, especially prime‐time television, on women viewers’ identity development. More specifically, this study explores one television show, the 1962–1964 Cathy Gale episodes of The Avengers, as a portal to adult learning. We explored how television, as a form of public pedagogy, can help facilitate the formation of a critical or feminist identity among adult learner viewers. Th…
Handbook of Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Shopocalypse
Learning to survive the ‘Shopocalypse’: Reverend Billy's anti-consumption ‘pedagogy of the unknown’
This paper explores the 'social movement learning' operating within one site of critical public pedagogy and, specifically, examines how the anti-consumption activist group Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping encourages transitional spaces of learning through a 'pedagogy of the unknown.' Bill Talen, a.k.a. 'Reverend Billy', is an anti-consumption activist who utilizes performance art as a form of critical public pedagogy. Through an an…
Homophobia and heterosexism in a college of education: A culture of fear, a culture of silence
In this study, we examine how broad heteronormative discourses circulate, become embodied within, negotiated by, and potentially resisted within a university, a college of education, and educators themselves. We pay special attention to how heteronormative discourses at Southwestern University (SWU) impact the various roles this college of education undertakes to train professionals in a range of human service occupations, most notably K‐12 schoo…
Tourism and Cultural Sustainability: Towards an Eco-cultural Justice for Place and People
while studies of tourism have progressed beyond older discourses of “negative” and “positive” impacts to more nuanced understandings of the interrelatedness, complexity, and local-global scale in which tourism plays out, cultural considerations continue to lag in sustainable tourism; the dynamism and intangible aspects of culture make it especially elusive and difficult to address “cultural sustainability” and ethical issues that arise in this co…
Shaping Youth Discourse About Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook's Public Pedagogy
As youths spend more time engaged in social media and informal learning experiences online, they interact with the public pedagogy of technological spaces. The public pedagogy of technological spaces, specifically Facebook, functions to create a habitus for the way youths act and respond in digital discourses and digital culture. This article contends that Facebook's public pedagogy seeks to shape how young people view technology, and we examine …
Inquiry as Answerability: Toward a Methodology of Discomfort in Researching Critical Public Pedagogies
In this article, the authors argue that inquiry into critical public pedagogies, public sites of counterhegemonic educational activity, requires that researchers' epistemological, representational, and ethical obligations extend to examine how their practices might undermine the political possibilities of these sites, diminish the transformative potential that public pedagogies hold, and ultimately reinscribe normative, limiting notions of educat…
Mapping the Complexity of Public Pedagogy Scholarship: 1894–2010
The term public pedagogy first appeared in 1894 and has been widely deployed as a theoretical construct in education research to focus on processes and sites of education beyond formal schooling, with a proliferation of its use by feminist and critical theorists occurring since the mid-1990s. This integrative literature review provides the first synthesis of public pedagogy research through a thematic analysis of a sample of 420 publications. Fin…
Resistance on Aisle Three: Exploring the Big Curriculum of Consumption and the (Im)Possibility of Resistance in John Updike’s “A&P”
In this article, we examine John Updike’s short story “A&P” and its depiction of the grocery store as a curricular space re/presenting consumption and resistance to it. We position Updike’s fictional A&P as a space where the “big curriculum” (Schubert, 2006a Schubert, W. H. (2006a). Focus on the Big Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 3(1), 100–103.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) of consumption is enacted in everyday lif…
Now I Ain't Sayin' She a Gold Digger: Wal-Mart Shoppers, Welfare Queens, and Other Gendered Stereotypes of Poor Women in the Big Curriculum of Consumption
In this article, which we present in a format informed by critical performance ethnography/pedagogy, we take up the issue of how we are 'taught into' the ideology of consumerism through examining the dominant discourses about (poor) women as shoppers that circulate in popular and political discourses and that work to uphold particular hegemonic ideologies about how to consume and how to behave as consumers within a capitalist economic system. We …
Consuming pedagogies: Controlling images of women as consumers in popular culture
We seek to understand how, by engaging in various sites of consumption, we learn particular gendered, raced and classed consumer subjectivities that often uphold patriarchal consumer capitalism. Drawing from academic literature on the history of consumption, we examine the historical construction of shopping and consumption as ‘feminine’ domains and explore how current discourses about females and consumerism continue to construct women as partic…
Learning, Becoming, and the Unknowable: Conceptualizations, Mechanisms, and Process in Public Pedagogy Literature
Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure and the eternal recurrence of whiteness
In this article, we examine how Disney participates in an affective economy through an analysis of how it engages with pleasure, and ask questions about what Disney’s manufacturing and selling of pleasure does, pedagogically. We posit that Disney’s pedagogies of pleasure, which operate from the notion that escape is attainable via the pleasurable experiences offered at Disney parks, teach us how to be particular kinds of Disney subjects who escap…
Pop Culture Pedagogies: Process and Praxis
As Miller (1999) explained, “it is increasingly important for educators to take seriously the processes by which media texts are produced and disseminated, and to understand the ways in which media images and constructions pervade all our lives” (p. 234). Taking popular culture seriously means making a purposeful commitment to bring popular culture into the classroom. Rather than scripted instructional strategies based on generalized research, co…
Escape from Tomorrow: Disney, institutionalized whiteness, and the difficult knowledge of being
Princesses transformed into ghouls. Psychedelic teacup rides. Simulated suicide. The world’s most famous theme park turned into a vomitorium. ... And you thought this was the happiest place on earth
Voluntary Simplifiers, Spirituality, and Happiness
In this article, we explore the connections between voluntary simplicity (VS), people who are dedicated to consuming less material goods, and Western spirituality. We investigate how voluntary simplifiers connect their practices of simplicity with their concepts and enactments of Western spirituality. First, we propose two categories of voluntary simplifiers identities based on interviews with individuals practicing VS: (1) spiritual voluntary si…
Happily (n)ever after: The cruel optimism of Disney’s romantic ideal
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Magic everywhere: Mapping the Disney curriculum
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
(Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer culture
This article focuses on the intersection of three areas of Peter Jarvis’s work that have profoundly influenced the field of adult education generally and the authors own research trajectories, in particular: (a) learning from everyday life and in social context, (b) incidental and tacit learning in consumer societies in a globalised world (i.e. market) and (c) adult learning, citizenship and activism. Wright and Sandlin outline how Jarvis’ work h…
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