Curriculum and the Problem of Violence Biopolitics Truth History and Fascism
This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence in the United States and internationally through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war authoritarianism post-truth social disparities and increasingly onerous surveillance technologies. Arguing that the current problem of violence is neither new nor aberrant the author historicises the conditions of possibility that have produced the violence that presently confronts our world. Seemingly disparate issues such as ethnonationalism authoritarian populism Christian nationalism neoliberalism the proliferation of sophisticated surveillance technologies and military Keynesianism are traced to historical features such as Ur-Fascism white supremacy corporate capitalism religious extremism propaganda and public relations institutional power and the biopolitical death function endemic in modern societies. Through a sweeping powerful and in-depth analysis of violence in its genealogical trajectories in global setting it promises to re-examine curriculum in a different light and open up new possibilities. As such the book is an important curriculum study which supports curricular ethics as articulated by Bill Pinar such as the situation of the self socially and historically the reconstruction of one’s understanding of the self and the world and the potential reconstruction of the social world as more peaceful and just. Significantly the book contributes to a retheorisation of Foucault’s biopolitics as affirmative biopower imbued with ethics of truth-seeking as a technology of the self. It will appeal to scholars and students of curriculum studies with interests in curriculum theory authoritarianism non-violence studies justice studies ethnonationalism and technologies of the self. | Curriculum and the Problem of Violence Biopolitics Truth History and Fascism
