Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism

Penny Jane Burke is Global Innovation Chair of Equity and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at University of Newcastle, Australia, and the former Editor of Teaching in Higher Education.Julia Coffey is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Youth Studies and Journal of Applied Youth Studies.Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City University of London, UK.Akane Kanai is Lecturer in the School of Film, Media and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Troubling Post-truth Populism: Feminist Interventions, Penny Jane Burke (University of Newcastle, Australia), Julia Coffey (University of Newcastle, Australia), Rosalind Gill (City University of London, UK) and Akane Kanai (Monash University, Australia)Part I: Truth1. Truth Parasites, Right-Wing Fury and the Predicaments of Feminist Expertise, Jane Kenway (University of Melbourne, Australia)2. The weaponization of ‘gender’ beyond gender: The entrenchment of ‘coloniality of power’ and ‘pedagogies of cruelty’, Isis Giraldo (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)3. Truth, Power and Pedagogy: Feminist Knowledge and Education in a ‘Post-truth’ Time, Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney, Australia)4. Something Resembling ‘Truth’: Reflections on Critical Pedagogy in the New ‘Post-truth’ Landscape, Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Part II: Feminism and Education5. Situating the Feminist Classroom: Between Free Speech and Media Myth, Nicola Rivers (University of Gloucestershire, UK)6. Persistence, Patience and Persuasion: Critical Reflections on Creating Space for Indigenous Content in Australian University Curricula, Susan Page (Western Sydney University, Australia)7. Anti-feminist Misogynist Shitposting: The Challenge of Feminist Academics Navigating Toxic Twitter, Xumeng Xie, Idil Cambazoglu, Bárbara Berger-Correa and Jessica Ringrose (UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK)8. Embodied Wilfulness: #MeToo Girls’ Activism, Affects, and ‘Complaint as Feminist Pedagogy’, Ileana Jiménez (Columbia University, USA)Part III: Gender Politics Beyond the Classroom9. Populist Politics in a Market-Leninist State: (Re)Thinking Gender in Vietnam, Thanh-Nhã Nguyen (Central European University, Vienna, Austria) and Matthew McDonald (Fulbright University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)10. Embracing Feral Pedagogies: Queer Feminist Education through Queer Performance, Alyson Campbell (University of Melbourne, Australia), Meta Cohen (wreckedAllprods, Australia), Stephen Farrier (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK) and Hannah McCann (University of Melbourne, Australia)11. Fight the Patriarchy: Digital Feminist Public Pedagogy and Post-Feminist Media Culture in Indonesia, Annisa R. Beta (University of Melbourne, Australia)Conclusion: Beyond True and Fale: Reflecting and Rebuilding Towards Feminist Pedagogies of Care, Akane Kanai (Monash University, Australia), Julia Coffey(University of Newcastle, Australia), Penny Jane Burke (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Rosalind Gill (City University of London, UK)ReferencesIndex

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