Sarah Amsler
Biographic Data
| ID | 297914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Amsler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Amsler |
| SIGNATURE | AMSLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0752-8804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond colonial futurities in climate education
Many pedagogies that seek to address the climate and nature emergency (CNE) promise hope and solutions for an idealized future. In this article, we suggest these pedagogies are rooted in the same modern/colonial system that created the CNE and other ‘wicked’ socio-ecological challenges in the first place, and thus they are not well-suited for preparing students to navigate these challenges. We also ask what kind of climate education could invite …
Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike
In 2018, a sequence of powerful education strikes and work stoppages across the United States sent shock waves through the country's public education system. This eruption of collective workers' organization was strongly led by women teachers responding to the current crisis of care, demanding resources, dignity, and justice for themselves, the children they teach, and their communities. While mainstream reports often represent these actions as t…
The carceral existence of social work academics: A Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities
Applying Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the ex-periences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their students exist within a “carceral network” which controls and normalises behaviour by simultaneously trapping them with-in and excluding them from succeeding in academic practices. While social work academi…
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far
In this article we review learnings from our collaborative efforts to engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization across varied educational contexts. To do so, we consider multiple interpretations of decolonization, and multiple dimensions of decolonial theory and practice - in particular, the ecological, cognitive, affective, relational, and economic dimensions. Rather than offer normative definitions or prescriptions for what …
Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures
This comment paper reflects on the challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinary, translocal efforts to create pedagogies that invite people to grapple with the foundations of global social and ecological injustice, and the difficulties of transforming them. It begins from a proposition that there is a ‘blind spot’ in analyses that uphold the sustainability of globalized capitalism and its interlocking systems of racialized and gendered oppre…
Organising an Alternative University: A Reflection on the Conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’
This article presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised by the Kocaeli Dayanışma Akademisi (Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity) in Kocaeli, Turkey on 30-31 March 2018. At the time of writing, its organisers and many of their colleagues and students remain dismissed from their university positions and under threat of state violence and repression. They are also, how…
Disciplinary Conquest: US Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 - by Salvatore, Ricardo D
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Cultural Colonialism
The term cultural colonialism refers to the extension of colonial state power through cultural knowledge, activities, and institutions (particularly education and media) or the systematic subordination of one conceptual framework or cultural identity over others. The understanding that culture is a medium for political and economic power, and for resistance, predates postcolonial theory in social and political thought. The specific concepts of “c…
Insane with courage’: Free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective
This article considers the role of experiments in learning in movements to democratise higher education ‘under the rule of capital’ (Gutierrez, Navarro and Linsalata 2017). It focuses on the emergence of a new generation of ‘free universities’ in the United Kingdom, situating these in a historical tradition of educational experimentation and a current context of global movements for autonomy from the state, capital and dominating epistemologies. …
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
Introduction to ‘Learning the Future Otherwise: Emerging Approaches to Critical Anticipation in Education’
Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: Exploring alternative educational orientations to the future
Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society
The Education of Radical Democracy
The Education of Radical Democracy explores why radical democracy is so necessary, difficult, and possible and why it is important to understand it as an educative activity . The book draws on critical social theory and critical pedagogy to explain what enables and sustains work for radical democratization, and considers how we can begin such work in neoliberal societies today. Exploring examples of projects from the nineteenth century to the pre…
Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching
Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive developments, teaching LGBT curricula content is contingent upon having educators understand the complexity of LGBT lives. The study adopted a qualitative mixed method approach. The study investigated how and in what ways barrie…
Occupy: Nowa pedagogika przestrzeni i czasu
This paper forms the first part of a project of inquiry to understand the theoretical and practical potentials of Occupy through the recent wave of occupations that have emerged in response to the politics of austerity and precarity around the world. We do this as educators who are seeking to ‘occupy’ spaces of higher education inside and outside of the institutions in which we work. Occupy points to the centrality of space and time as practical …
Crisis in the Global Mediasphere: Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation
University ranking: A dialogue on turning towards alternatives
This article, written as a critical dialogue between 2 interlocutors, puts forward a number of arguments justifying and criticizing the practice of university ranking. It draws attention to 3 key problematics: the ideological construction of institutional ranking as a professionally necessary and inevitable activity, the symbolically violent character of ranking as a form of social categorization and hierarchization, and the possibility of denyin…
Lost in transition: Redefining students and universities in the contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Review of Alan DeYoung's Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
University ranking as social exclusion
In this article we explore the dual role of global university rankings in the creation of a new, knowledge-identified, transnational capitalist class and in facilitating new forms of social exclusion. We examine how and why the practice of ranking universities has become widely defined by national and international organisations as an important instrument of political and economic policy. We consider the development of university rankings into a …
From ‘therapeutic’ to political education: The Centrality of Affective Sensibility in Critical Pedagogy
While the need for humanising education is pressing in neoliberal societies, the conditions for its possibility in formal institutions have become particularly cramped. A constellation of factors – the strength of neoliberal ideologies, the corporatisation of universities, the conflation of human freedom with consumer satisfaction and a wider crisis of hope in the possibility or desirability of social change – make it difficult to apply classical…
Beyond All Reason: Spaces of Hope in the Struggle for England's Universities
This essay examines how academics and students in England have been primed to comply with a political agenda of "deep" neoliberalization through cumulative processes of institutional and subjective undermining and considers what might be an appropriate logic of critical response. It first describes how the embedding of principles and mechanisms of market governance within academic life has depoliticized methods for critically theorizing and colle…
Promising Futures? Education as a Symbolic Resource of Hope in Kyrgyzstan
PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN Central Asian societies—as in many other societies across the globe—are often presumed to be either reflections of dominant political and economic change or tools for achieving it. In this essay, which uses higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan as a case study for theoretical analysis, I argue for an alternative, more constructivist interpretation of the relationship between education and the political. This is…
Life at the edge of the empire: Oral histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Review of Life at the Edge of the EmpireLife at the edge of the empire: oral histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, edited by Sam Tranum,Bishkek, private publisher, 2009, 256 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), no ISBN
Embracing the Politics of Ambiguity: "Towards a Normative Theory of "Sustainability
One of the most interesting problems within the burgeoning literature on ecological sustainability is that the concept itself, while politically ubiquitous, is also \nanalytically ambiguous. Many attempts to determine the diverse and contested meanings of sustainability \nthus also reflect deeper concerns to clarify the political and ethical implications of the term in practice. Given these ambiguities, does the concept of sustainability serve an…
From ‘therapeutic’ to political education: The Centrality of Affective Sensibility in Critical Pedagogy
While the need for humanising education is pressing in neoliberal societies, the conditions for its possibility in formal institutions have become particularly cramped. A constellation of factors – the strength of neoliberal ideologies, the corporatisation of universities, the conflation of human freedom with consumer satisfaction and a wider crisis of hope in the possibility or desirability of social change – make it difficult to apply classical…
Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: Exploring alternative educational orientations to the future
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far
In this article we review learnings from our collaborative efforts to engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization across varied educational contexts. To do so, we consider multiple interpretations of decolonization, and multiple dimensions of decolonial theory and practice - in particular, the ecological, cognitive, affective, relational, and economic dimensions. Rather than offer normative definitions or prescriptions for what …
University ranking as social exclusion
In this article we explore the dual role of global university rankings in the creation of a new, knowledge-identified, transnational capitalist class and in facilitating new forms of social exclusion. We examine how and why the practice of ranking universities has become widely defined by national and international organisations as an important instrument of political and economic policy. We consider the development of university rankings into a …
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
Introduction to ‘Learning the Future Otherwise: Emerging Approaches to Critical Anticipation in Education’
Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Embracing the Politics of Ambiguity: "Towards a Normative Theory of "Sustainability
One of the most interesting problems within the burgeoning literature on ecological sustainability is that the concept itself, while politically ubiquitous, is also \nanalytically ambiguous. Many attempts to determine the diverse and contested meanings of sustainability \nthus also reflect deeper concerns to clarify the political and ethical implications of the term in practice. Given these ambiguities, does the concept of sustainability serve an…
Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike
In 2018, a sequence of powerful education strikes and work stoppages across the United States sent shock waves through the country's public education system. This eruption of collective workers' organization was strongly led by women teachers responding to the current crisis of care, demanding resources, dignity, and justice for themselves, the children they teach, and their communities. While mainstream reports often represent these actions as t…
University ranking: A dialogue on turning towards alternatives
This article, written as a critical dialogue between 2 interlocutors, puts forward a number of arguments justifying and criticizing the practice of university ranking. It draws attention to 3 key problematics: the ideological construction of institutional ranking as a professionally necessary and inevitable activity, the symbolically violent character of ranking as a form of social categorization and hierarchization, and the possibility of denyin…
Beyond All Reason: Spaces of Hope in the Struggle for England's Universities
This essay examines how academics and students in England have been primed to comply with a political agenda of "deep" neoliberalization through cumulative processes of institutional and subjective undermining and considers what might be an appropriate logic of critical response. It first describes how the embedding of principles and mechanisms of market governance within academic life has depoliticized methods for critically theorizing and colle…
Promising Futures? Education as a Symbolic Resource of Hope in Kyrgyzstan
PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN Central Asian societies—as in many other societies across the globe—are often presumed to be either reflections of dominant political and economic change or tools for achieving it. In this essay, which uses higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan as a case study for theoretical analysis, I argue for an alternative, more constructivist interpretation of the relationship between education and the political. This is…
Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures
This comment paper reflects on the challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinary, translocal efforts to create pedagogies that invite people to grapple with the foundations of global social and ecological injustice, and the difficulties of transforming them. It begins from a proposition that there is a ‘blind spot’ in analyses that uphold the sustainability of globalized capitalism and its interlocking systems of racialized and gendered oppre…
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islam - Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
Perceptual accuracy in schizophrenia, depression, and neurosis, and effects of amytal
Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islam - Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia: Science Between Marx and the Market
"Through careful historical and ethnographic research and the extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of scientific revolution or science and society are inadequate for understanding the science project in Central Asia. Instead, a critical understanding of local science is more appropriate."--Jacket
Cultural Colonialism
The term cultural colonialism refers to two related practices: the extension of colonial power through cultural activities and institutions (particularly education and media) or the asymmetrical influence of one culture over another. The latter is most often understood as the cultural domination of Southern societies by the global North in the context of global capitalism, but may also refer to the “internal” repression of marginalized cultural g…
Hope
Hope most generally refers to a desire for positive futures that are considered possible, either theoretically or in practice, but not guaranteed. Whether “open” and “absolute” or “goal‐directed” and “ultimate,” hope is the expression of a belief in the possibility of possibility (Webb 2007). Beyond this generality, however, the term signifies a contested terrain of understandings of future‐oriented thought, feeling, and action. While there have …
Promising Futures? Education as a Symbolic Resource of Hope in Kyrgyzstan
PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN Central Asian societies—as in many other societies across the globe—are often presumed to be either reflections of dominant political and economic change or tools for achieving it. In this essay, which uses higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan as a case study for theoretical analysis, I argue for an alternative, more constructivist interpretation of the relationship between education and the political. This is…
Life at the edge of the empire: Oral histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Review of Life at the Edge of the EmpireLife at the edge of the empire: oral histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, edited by Sam Tranum,Bishkek, private publisher, 2009, 256 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), no ISBN
Embracing the Politics of Ambiguity: "Towards a Normative Theory of "Sustainability
One of the most interesting problems within the burgeoning literature on ecological sustainability is that the concept itself, while politically ubiquitous, is also \nanalytically ambiguous. Many attempts to determine the diverse and contested meanings of sustainability \nthus also reflect deeper concerns to clarify the political and ethical implications of the term in practice. Given these ambiguities, does the concept of sustainability serve an…
From ‘therapeutic’ to political education: The Centrality of Affective Sensibility in Critical Pedagogy
While the need for humanising education is pressing in neoliberal societies, the conditions for its possibility in formal institutions have become particularly cramped. A constellation of factors – the strength of neoliberal ideologies, the corporatisation of universities, the conflation of human freedom with consumer satisfaction and a wider crisis of hope in the possibility or desirability of social change – make it difficult to apply classical…
Beyond All Reason: Spaces of Hope in the Struggle for England's Universities
This essay examines how academics and students in England have been primed to comply with a political agenda of "deep" neoliberalization through cumulative processes of institutional and subjective undermining and considers what might be an appropriate logic of critical response. It first describes how the embedding of principles and mechanisms of market governance within academic life has depoliticized methods for critically theorizing and colle…
University ranking as social exclusion
In this article we explore the dual role of global university rankings in the creation of a new, knowledge-identified, transnational capitalist class and in facilitating new forms of social exclusion. We examine how and why the practice of ranking universities has become widely defined by national and international organisations as an important instrument of political and economic policy. We consider the development of university rankings into a …
University ranking: A dialogue on turning towards alternatives
This article, written as a critical dialogue between 2 interlocutors, puts forward a number of arguments justifying and criticizing the practice of university ranking. It draws attention to 3 key problematics: the ideological construction of institutional ranking as a professionally necessary and inevitable activity, the symbolically violent character of ranking as a form of social categorization and hierarchization, and the possibility of denyin…
Lost in transition: Redefining students and universities in the contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Review of Alan DeYoung's Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Crisis in the Global Mediasphere: Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation
The Education of Radical Democracy
The Education of Radical Democracy explores why radical democracy is so necessary, difficult, and possible and why it is important to understand it as an educative activity . The book draws on critical social theory and critical pedagogy to explain what enables and sustains work for radical democratization, and considers how we can begin such work in neoliberal societies today. Exploring examples of projects from the nineteenth century to the pre…
Facilitating LGBT Medical, Health and Social Care Content in Higher Education Teaching
Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive developments, teaching LGBT curricula content is contingent upon having educators understand the complexity of LGBT lives. The study adopted a qualitative mixed method approach. The study investigated how and in what ways barrie…
Occupy: Nowa pedagogika przestrzeni i czasu
This paper forms the first part of a project of inquiry to understand the theoretical and practical potentials of Occupy through the recent wave of occupations that have emerged in response to the politics of austerity and precarity around the world. We do this as educators who are seeking to ‘occupy’ spaces of higher education inside and outside of the institutions in which we work. Occupy points to the centrality of space and time as practical …
Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society
Cultural Colonialism
The term cultural colonialism refers to the extension of colonial state power through cultural knowledge, activities, and institutions (particularly education and media) or the systematic subordination of one conceptual framework or cultural identity over others. The understanding that culture is a medium for political and economic power, and for resistance, predates postcolonial theory in social and political thought. The specific concepts of “c…
Insane with courage’: Free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective
This article considers the role of experiments in learning in movements to democratise higher education ‘under the rule of capital’ (Gutierrez, Navarro and Linsalata 2017). It focuses on the emergence of a new generation of ‘free universities’ in the United Kingdom, situating these in a historical tradition of educational experimentation and a current context of global movements for autonomy from the state, capital and dominating epistemologies. …
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
Introduction to ‘Learning the Future Otherwise: Emerging Approaches to Critical Anticipation in Education’
Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: Exploring alternative educational orientations to the future
Organising an Alternative University: A Reflection on the Conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’
This article presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised by the Kocaeli Dayanışma Akademisi (Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity) in Kocaeli, Turkey on 30-31 March 2018. At the time of writing, its organisers and many of their colleagues and students remain dismissed from their university positions and under threat of state violence and repression. They are also, how…
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Social science (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works)