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Politics of Affect: The Technologies of Governance in Making Normative Subjectivities in Education

Wed, April 8, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304A

Session Type: Symposium

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The symposium explores the cultural politics of affect in education, focusing on how affects work as technologies of governance that make normative subjectivities. Presenters bring their historical inquiry, qualitative studies, and (visual) discourse analysis to examine how affects such as “patience,” “anger,” “joy,” “happiness,” “fear,” “uplift,” and “desire” govern and reproduce particular modes of reasoning in education. By revisiting the past and the present through the multiple ways that affects function in the areas of postcolonial education, multicultural education, disabilities studies, teacher education, and curriculum reforms, this session calls for re-envisioning future education research through the interrogation of affective forces as norms that categorize, compare, and distribute differences.

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