Capitalism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Being

Abstract

Through reframing central categories in Western critical thought, this book systematically bridges the theoretical traditions of Marxism, Latin American decolonial thought and critical pedagogy. It investigates the relationship between capitalism and coloniality in society and education, and reconceptualizes emancipatory theory and pedagogy in response. De Lissovoy exposes a logic of violation at the heart of capitalist accumulation and argues that we need to attend to ontological and epistemological orders of domination within which subjectivity takes shape. Challenging the limits of progressive responses, De Lissovoy shows how a new critical imaginary can reorder curriculum in schools and other educational spaces, organize a form of learning beyond the capitalist imperatives of injury and exploitation, and reconstruct pedagogical relationships in the mode of a decolonial and democratic commons.