Acknowledgements; Introduction: Education and the Political; Are Duties of Justice in Education Global in Scope?; Education for Resistance, Education for Consensus?: Non-Consensual Democracy and Education; Grammars of Privatization, Schooling, and the "Network State" ; Identity and Normativity: Politics and Education; Time Out: Can Education Do and Be Done Without Time?; The Double Subjectifi cation Function of Education: Reconsidering Hospitality and Democracy; The Politics of the University: Movements of (de-)Identifi cation and the Invention of Public Pedagogic Forms; Toward the Ignorant Gdansk Citizen: Place-based Collective Identity, Knowledge to Refuse, and the Refusal to Know; Stop Making Sense!: And Hear the Wrong People Speak.

The essays in this collection address the relation between education and politics in new ways. Rather than understanding education simply as the object of political decision-making, or as preparation for politics, the authors of this volume see education as implicated in social conflicts and in the political processes that produce and change social structures. Education, then, is a practice that reconfigures the relations between subjectivities and the political. The collection focuses on several critical cases and theoretical debates where the relation between education and politics demands new articulations. It explores the potential of theoretical languages proposed by Rancière, Laclau, Derrida, Mouffe, Bakhtin, and other thinkers whose work has not yet been fully recognized in its pedagogical meaning.