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“Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike (2021)
Journal Article
Hanrahan, N. W., & Amsler, S. (2022). “Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(1), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12739

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 respond... Read More about “Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike.

The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities (2020)
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Amsler, S., & Simpson, D. (2020). The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities. Foucault Studies, 1(28), 36-70. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6073

Applying Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the experiences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their student... Read More about The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities.

The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities (2020)
Journal Article
Simpson, D., & Amsler, S. (2020). The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities. Foucault Studies, 1(28), 36-70. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6073

Applying Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the experiences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their student... Read More about The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities.

Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges (2020)
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Amsler, S., Kerr, J., & Andreotti, V. (2020). Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges. Education and Society, 38(1), 13-37. https://doi.org/10.7459/es/38.1.02

As societies face unprecedented challenges that are global in scope and "more-than-wicked" in nature, educators and educational policy makers emphasize the importance of deepening knowledge about the causes of these problems, creating policies to add... Read More about Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far (2020)
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Stein, S., Andreotti, V., Suša, R., Amsler, S., Hunt, D., Ahenakew, C., …Okano, H. (2020). Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 4(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.3518

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 dim... Read More about Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far.

Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures (2019)
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AMSLER, S. (2019). Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures. Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00679-8

This 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 t... Read More about Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures.

Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis (2018)
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Amsler, S., & Weiss-Hanrahan, N. (2018). Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 2(4), 55-73

How can critical theory help us to articulate the nature of social suffering in twenty-first century capitalism, and to expand our horizons of possibility for liberation and alternative futures at a moment of apparent impasse? In this essay, we explo... Read More about Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis.

Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’ (2018)
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Amsler, S. (2018). Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 775-781. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1042

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.... Read More about Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’.

Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times (2018)
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Andreotti, V., Stein, S., Sutherland, A., Pashby, K., Susa, R., & Amsler, S. (2018). Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times

In this article we present four social cartographies with the intention to contribute to different conversations about global justice and education. The cartographies aim to invite curiosity, depth, reflexivity, openness, and the expansion of sensib... Read More about Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times.

Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’ (2017)
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Amsler, S., & Facer, K. (2017). Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’. Futures, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.09.004

In November 2015, a gathering was convened in Italy to explore how to ‘improve the resilience of societies facing threats from a global proliferation of agents and forces by articulating uncertainties through anticipatory processes’ (Project Anticipa... Read More about Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’.

The marketised university and the politics of motherhood (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Motta, S. C. (2019). The marketised university and the politics of motherhood. Gender and Education, 31(1), 82-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1296116

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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 usin... Read More about The marketised university and the politics of motherhood.

‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S. (2017). ‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective. Learning and Teaching, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2017.100102

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... Read More about ‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective.

Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future (2017)
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Amsler, S., & Facer, K. (in press). Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future. Futures, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.01.001

Advanced capitalist societies are characterized by three forms of power and powerlessness: a hegemony of political monoculture; the ‘undoing’ of democratic forms of political agency and subjects; and the ‘political construction of hopelessness’ in ch... Read More about Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future.

Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching (2015)
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Davy, Z., Amsler, S., & Duncombe, K. (2015). Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching. Qualitative Research in Education, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.4471/qre.2015.1210

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... Read More about Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching.

'Imagining unthinkable spaces' (2014)
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Amsler, S., & Amsler, M. (2014). 'Imagining unthinkable spaces'. Argos Aotearoa: A Journal of Place/Politics, 1(1),

The neoliberalized university embodies the destruction of the public sphere by capitalism. Spaces for heterogeneous thinking, for creative, critical, contested connections, and thus for potentially liberating work are being relentlessly foreclosed. I... Read More about 'Imagining unthinkable spaces'.

“By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education (2014)
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Amsler, S. (in press). “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.852614

This paper concerns the relationship between teaching and political action both within and outside formal educational institutions. Its setting is the recent period following the 2010 Browne Review on the funding of higher education in England. Rathe... Read More about “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education.