Privilege, Agency and Affect

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Privilege, Agency and Affect — Understanding the Production and Effects of Action

   1. Introduction: Privilege, Agency and Affect — Understanding the Production and Effects of Action

      • Claire Maxwell, Peter Aggleton

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3. Privilege, Emotions and Reproduction Through Elite Education

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market

      • Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Aaron Koh

      Pages 15-31

   3. The Sense of Entitlement

      • Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Kate Cairns, Chandni Desai

      Pages 32-49

   4. Elite School Capitals and Girls’ Schooling: Understanding the (Re)production of Privilege through a Habitus of ‘Assuredness’

      • Joan Forbes, Bob Lingard

      Pages 50-68

4. Agency and Affect In and Through Higher Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Space of Academia: Privilege, Agency and the Erasure of Affect

      • Sue Clegg

      Pages 71-87

   3. Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority: Unconscious Fantasies and Fragile Identifications in Contemporary Academic Practice

      • Claudia Lapping

      Pages 88-105

   4. Privilege, Agency and Affect in the Academy: Who Do You Think You Are?

      • Valerie Hey

      Pages 106-123

5. Privilege, Dominance and Hierarchy Between Families and Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. ‘Mumsnetiquette’: Online Affect within Parenting Culture

      • Tracey Jensen

      Pages 127-145

   3. Regenerational Selves and Regional ‘Resilience’: Agency, Entitlement and Privilege in the North East of England

      • Yvette Taylor

      Pages 146-163

6. Agency, Privilege and Social Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. The White Middle Classes and Urban Comprehensive Schools: Ambivalences and Anxieties of Privilege

      • Diane Reay

      Pages 167-184

   3. Negotiating Privilege through Social Justice Efforts

      • Adam Howard

      Pages 185-201

   4. Gender on Class Journeys

      • Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

      Pages 202-218

7. End Notes

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Feeling Rules, Atmospheres and Affective Practice: Some Reflections on the Analysis of Emotional Episodes

      • Margaret Wetherell

      Pages 221-239

   3. Privileging and Affecting Agency

      • Laura M. Ahearn

      Pages 240-247

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where possibilities for social change might lie.

• human agency
• privilege
• social theory
• social mobility
• education
• emotion
• Familie
• gender
• Generation
• Habitus
• Institution
• school
• schooling
• social change
• social justice

"as an introduction to the field of affect, privilege, and agency from the perspectives of post-structuralism, critical theory, and social-practice theory, this collection of essays is a very good place to start". - Gender and Education

• Institute of Education, University of London, UK

  Claire Maxwell

• The University of New South Wales, Australia

  Peter Aggleton

Peter Aggleton, University of New South Wales, Australia Laura M. Ahearn, Rutgers University, USA Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, University of Oslo, Norway Sue Clegg, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Johannah Fahey, Monash University, Australia Joan Forbes, University of Aberdeen, UK Valerie Hey, University of Sussex, UK Adam Howard, Colby College, USA Tracey Jensen, University of East London, UK Jane Kenway, Monash University, Australia Claudia Lapping, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Bob Lingard, the University of Queensland, Australia Aaron Koh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Claire Maxwell, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Diane Reay, University of Cambridge, UK Yvette Taylor, London South Bank University, UK Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto, Canada Kate Cairns, University of Toronto, Canada Chandni Desai, University of Toronto, Canada Margaret Wetherell, University of Auckland, Australia; Open University, UK

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