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The Urban Review

, Volume 48, Issue 4, pp 499–519 | Cite as

Neoliberal Blues and Prec(ar)ious Knowledge

  • Michelle Fine
  • Cory Greene
  • Sonia Sanchez
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Abstract

This essay explores the political economic roots of the notion of precarity and migrates the construct into critical educational studies, reviewing the literatures on structural dispossession and race; disruptive innovation and educational reform, and embodied precarity as narrated by youth of color, poverty and immigration. Implications for urban school reform and the significance of sustainable relationships and community schools are explored.

Keywords

Education reform Precarity Poverty Urban education 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Critical Social/Personality Psychology, The Graduate CenterCUNYNew YorkUSA

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