Reforming the city
Neoliberal school reform and democratic contestation in New Orleans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8422683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Huff (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-317 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cag.12018 |
| OpenAlex | W2136441973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 18 |
Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became a testing ground for a series of neoliberal school reforms, including the eradication of neighbourhood attendance boundaries and the extensive charterization of public schools in the parish. Ostensibly designed to improve schooling options, these efforts are not directed solely at securing positive educational outcomes. Instead, neoliberal school reforms utilize spatial strategies to reshape the city itself in ways that often benefit white elites while displacing and disempowering many of the city's poor people of colour. These reform strategies tend to undermine democratic life but, as illustrated by the work of the non‐profit group OPEN (Orleans Public Education Network), they do not foreclose the possibility of it. Rather than taking a particular stand toward the current reforms, OPEN attempts to build civic capacity around educational issues. The deliberative process they use creates a time and a place for a type of educative experience that is actively discouraged by neoliberal reform and yet vitally important to democratic struggles
Attendance · Democracy · Democratic Education · Economic growth · Economics · Education reform · Higher education · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Disaster Management and Resilience · Homelessness and Social Issues · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Public Administration
Knocking the Hustle
Behind the photos and the tears
Only in New Orleans
Optimizing a critical juncture
“I Felt Powerful”
Structural racism and the urban geography of education
Philanthropy to the rescue? Detroit’s schools and urban policymaking under austerity
Infrastructures of social reproduction
Carers First, Workers Second
The irony of rigor
What enables communities to resist neoliberal education reforms? Lessons from Newark and Camden, New Jersey
Invoking landscapes of spatialized inequality
School-hosted urban development
Histories that root us
A marketplace of schools”
The Hurricane network
Privatizing Benefit and Socializing Cost
Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace
Boiling the Frog Slowly
Catching the bus
Contending with school reform
The Gift of Education
Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism
Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-Liberalism
Recapturing Democracy
There’s No Place like New Orleans”
Liberating the City
School Choice and Competitive Incentives
Public Schools in Marketized Environments
Education Markets, Choice and Social Class
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Locational Decisions of Charter Schools
Urban shrinkage as a performance of whiteness
John Dewey's Ethics
Learning from New Orleans
The Marketization of Education
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |