The necessary (and missing) connection between Marx and Foucault in education: Noah De Lissovoy’s notion of Violation.

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

Sometimes education is only able to look at its problems rather than really see them. It is necessary to see the attack on Critical Race Theory and LGBTQIA2s+ communities in education as expression of an invisible logic of violation. Panel participants will discuss how De Lissovoy’s notion of violation might be the bridge between Marx and Foucault. Violation “...seeks not only to construct the normal and the deviant, but also to make the oppressed knowable only as broken and ineffective” (De Lissovoy, 2012a, 469). In addition, we consider practical implications of understanding and resisting violation, such as unpacking neoliberal-linguoracist in bilingual education, diminished civil discourse, and basketball in schools as a site of disruption. Finally, we move from analyzing the architecture of violation to an emancipatory analysis of the creative openings for critical social imagination.

Sub Track

• AESA

Chair

• Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Discussant

• Jeannette Driscoll Alarcón, The University of Houston

Presenters

• Graham B. Slater, Independent Scholar

• Blanca Caldas, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Alex Joseph Armonda, University of Texas at Austin