1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910800061803321

Autore

Gulson Kalervo N.

Titolo

Education policy, space, and the city : markets and the (in)visibility of race / / Kalervo N. Gulson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-88627-3

1-136-88628-1

1-283-04358-0

9786613043580

0-203-83967-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in education ; ; 47

Disciplina

370.9173/2

Soggetti

Education, Urban - Government policy

Race discrimination

City children - Education - Government policy

Urban geology - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Policy, space and theorising the city -- Critical policy analysis : governmentality, rationalities and technologies -- Notes on a spatial policy analytic: relational notions of subjectivity, space and place -- Aboriginality, racialised places and the education market in inner Sydney -- Policy, aspirations and urban imaginaries in east London -- Parental choice, the multicultural city and whiteness in east Vancouver -- Racial neoliberalism, education policy and the city.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education policy, specifically those relating to education markets and school choice, enable the pervasiveness of a white, middle-class, re-imagining of inner-city areas, and render race ""(in)visible."" With urbanization posited as one of the central concerns for the future of the planet, relationships betwee



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814959303321

Autore

Ruffner Howard

Titolo

Moments of truth : a photographer's experience of Kent State 1970 / / Howard Ruffner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-63101-387-4

1-63101-388-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Disciplina

378.77137

Soggetti

Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970

Photographers - United States

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Early exposure to the power of photographs -- Air Force provided formal training -- Spring 1969, Kent State University: Campus photographer -- Fall/winter 1969: Traditions and campus unrest -- Spring quarter and Jerry Rubin -- May 1, 1970, Friday: Noon rally -- May 2, 1970, Saturday: The ROTC building -- May 3, 1970, Sunday: Governor Rhodes and National Guard on campus -- May 3, 1970, Sunday, The eve before the shootings: Curfew and protests -- May 4, 1970, Monday morning: Stringer for Life magazine -- Ready, aim -- May 4, 1970: Calm after the shootings -- Aftermath: The civil trials.