Kathryn Moeller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Moeller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Moeller |
| SIGNATURE | MOELLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5684-740X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The risky business of research: The Control of Academic Knowledge Production and the Racialised and Gendered Contours of Corporate Power
This article examines attempts to censor academic knowledge production and expertise on corporate power. It provides an ethnographically grounded way of illuminating one corporation's attempts to control academic research as the company worked to maintain its hegemony in the face of a long history of public accusations of labour abuse. Reflecting on the author's own experience of negotiating fieldwork and publishing, the analysis reveals what ant…
An analytic framework for theorizing the anti-gender agenda in education
This article theorizes the global anti-gender movement in education. This conservative movement opposes “gender ideology,” which is perceived as a threat to traditional social values. Building on a systematic literature review of how the anti-gender movement shapes educational policies, politics, and practices, with a specific focus on Brazil and the US, this article presents a theoretical framework for conceptualizing: 1) the contested meanings …
Educational capitalisation: A co-formational feminist framework for conceptualising investment in for-profit education within the racialised and gendered political economy
This paper examines the processes through which education becomes valued as capital within the racialised and gendered political economy. Using the empirical case of venture capital (VC) investment in for-profit education companies, principally education technology companies and for-profit school chains, it puts forward the concept of educational capitalisation. We conceptualise it as the set of uneven processes, practices, and socio-spatial rela…
On hauntings and hierarchies: Bridging between elite universities and communities
This essay uses Paulo Freire as inspiration of thinking about the limits and possibilities of building bridges between elite universities in the Global North and communities around the world given the historic and present-day entanglements between these universities and empire, colonisation, and epistemic violence. It sheds lights on how racialised and gendered capitalism distorts our collective possibilities for shared thriving, freedom, and bri…
Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice
The politics of curricular erasure: Debates on race, gender, and sexuality in the Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum
Through the critical feminist lens of intersectionality, this article examines how race, gender, and sexuality were contested through a process of curricular revision before the Base Nacional Comum Curricular, the new Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum known as the BNCC, became federal law in 2017. Drawing on interviews with professors who wrote the BNCC curriculum and an analysis of the different published iterations of the curriculum, the artic…
Philanthropizing’ consent: How a private foundation pushed through national learning standards in Brazil
This article explores how the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (National Learning Standards), entered the policy debate in Brazil and became the most important reform initiative of the Ministry of Education between 2015 and 2017. We argue that this accelerated policy process was contingent upon the practice of philanthropizing consent: foundations’ use of material resources, knowledge production, media power, and informal and formal networks to gar…
Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education
Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and, correspondingly, by subsuming the processes of corporatization within the processes of privatization, the literatur…
The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development
"How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic…
Thomas Piketty’s relevance for the study of education: Reflections on the political economy of education
Beginning in the summer of 2008, the global financial crisis destroyed wealth across the world. Emanating from the world’s financial capital in New York City, as the financial institutions Bear Ste
A critical feminist and race critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty - first Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century documents the foreboding nature of rising wealth inequality in the twenty-first century. In an effort to promote a more just and democratic global society and rein in the unfettered accumulation of wealth by the few, Piketty calls for a global progressive annual tax on corporate capital. Employing a critical feminist and race perspective on the political economy, this article examines Piketty’s…
Searching for Adolescent Girls in Brazil: "The Transnational Politics of Poverty in "The Girl Effect
Proving “The Girl Effect”: Corporate knowledge production and educational intervention
Proving “The Girl Effect”: Corporate knowledge production and educational intervention
Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education
Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and, correspondingly, by subsuming the processes of corporatization within the processes of privatization, the literatur…
Philanthropizing’ consent: How a private foundation pushed through national learning standards in Brazil
This article explores how the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (National Learning Standards), entered the policy debate in Brazil and became the most important reform initiative of the Ministry of Education between 2015 and 2017. We argue that this accelerated policy process was contingent upon the practice of philanthropizing consent: foundations’ use of material resources, knowledge production, media power, and informal and formal networks to gar…
The politics of curricular erasure: Debates on race, gender, and sexuality in the Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum
Through the critical feminist lens of intersectionality, this article examines how race, gender, and sexuality were contested through a process of curricular revision before the Base Nacional Comum Curricular, the new Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum known as the BNCC, became federal law in 2017. Drawing on interviews with professors who wrote the BNCC curriculum and an analysis of the different published iterations of the curriculum, the artic…
A critical feminist and race critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty - first Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century documents the foreboding nature of rising wealth inequality in the twenty-first century. In an effort to promote a more just and democratic global society and rein in the unfettered accumulation of wealth by the few, Piketty calls for a global progressive annual tax on corporate capital. Employing a critical feminist and race perspective on the political economy, this article examines Piketty’s…
Searching for Adolescent Girls in Brazil: "The Transnational Politics of Poverty in "The Girl Effect
Proving “The Girl Effect”: Corporate knowledge production and educational intervention
Searching for Adolescent Girls in Brazil: "The Transnational Politics of Poverty in "The Girl Effect
Thomas Piketty’s relevance for the study of education: Reflections on the political economy of education
Beginning in the summer of 2008, the global financial crisis destroyed wealth across the world. Emanating from the world’s financial capital in New York City, as the financial institutions Bear Ste
A critical feminist and race critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty - first Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century documents the foreboding nature of rising wealth inequality in the twenty-first century. In an effort to promote a more just and democratic global society and rein in the unfettered accumulation of wealth by the few, Piketty calls for a global progressive annual tax on corporate capital. Employing a critical feminist and race perspective on the political economy, this article examines Piketty’s…
The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development
"How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic…
The politics of curricular erasure: Debates on race, gender, and sexuality in the Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum
Through the critical feminist lens of intersectionality, this article examines how race, gender, and sexuality were contested through a process of curricular revision before the Base Nacional Comum Curricular, the new Brazilian ‘common core’ curriculum known as the BNCC, became federal law in 2017. Drawing on interviews with professors who wrote the BNCC curriculum and an analysis of the different published iterations of the curriculum, the artic…
Philanthropizing’ consent: How a private foundation pushed through national learning standards in Brazil
This article explores how the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (National Learning Standards), entered the policy debate in Brazil and became the most important reform initiative of the Ministry of Education between 2015 and 2017. We argue that this accelerated policy process was contingent upon the practice of philanthropizing consent: foundations’ use of material resources, knowledge production, media power, and informal and formal networks to gar…
Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education
Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and, correspondingly, by subsuming the processes of corporatization within the processes of privatization, the literatur…
Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice
On hauntings and hierarchies: Bridging between elite universities and communities
This essay uses Paulo Freire as inspiration of thinking about the limits and possibilities of building bridges between elite universities in the Global North and communities around the world given the historic and present-day entanglements between these universities and empire, colonisation, and epistemic violence. It sheds lights on how racialised and gendered capitalism distorts our collective possibilities for shared thriving, freedom, and bri…
An analytic framework for theorizing the anti-gender agenda in education
This article theorizes the global anti-gender movement in education. This conservative movement opposes “gender ideology,” which is perceived as a threat to traditional social values. Building on a systematic literature review of how the anti-gender movement shapes educational policies, politics, and practices, with a specific focus on Brazil and the US, this article presents a theoretical framework for conceptualizing: 1) the contested meanings …
Educational capitalisation: A co-formational feminist framework for conceptualising investment in for-profit education within the racialised and gendered political economy
This paper examines the processes through which education becomes valued as capital within the racialised and gendered political economy. Using the empirical case of venture capital (VC) investment in for-profit education companies, principally education technology companies and for-profit school chains, it puts forward the concept of educational capitalisation. We conceptualise it as the set of uneven processes, practices, and socio-spatial rela…
The risky business of research: The Control of Academic Knowledge Production and the Racialised and Gendered Contours of Corporate Power
This article examines attempts to censor academic knowledge production and expertise on corporate power. It provides an ethnographically grounded way of illuminating one corporation's attempts to control academic research as the company worked to maintain its hegemony in the face of a long history of public accusations of labour abuse. Reflecting on the author's own experience of negotiating fieldwork and publishing, the analysis reveals what ant…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works)