Stephen Carney is Professor in International Education Policy at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is President of the Comparative Education Society for Europe (CESE) and co-series editor of New Directions in Comparative and International Education (Bloomsbury). Eleftherios Klerides is Associate Professor of Comparative Education and History of Education at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

• Preface, Eleftherios Klerides and Stephen CarneyNotes on Contributors1. Educated identity, crisis, and comparative education, Eleftherios Klerides and Stephen Carney2. Educated identity: concepts, mobilities, and imperium, Robert Cowen3. The positional identities of East Asian mobile academics in UK higher education: a comparative analysis of internationalisation and equality and diversity, Terri Kim4. The professoriate in the dispossessed university: traditional and emergent identities, Nelly P. Stromquist5. Global citizenship in motion: comparing cross-border practices in German schools abroad, Simona Szakács-Behling, Annekatrin Bock, Catharina I. Keßler, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Riem Spielhaus6. The politics of fear and hope: Europe at the crossroads, Ruth Wodak7. Right-wing populism, educational media, and schools in times of crisis, Christoph Kohl8. The slowing global order: boredom and affect in criss-crossing comparative education research, Noah W. Sobe9. Identity formation through consumer products in late modern hyperculture: a pedagogic analysis of Playmobil figuresPhillip D. Th. Knobloch10. A longer view: conceptualising education, identity and the public good in 1917 and 2016, Elaine Unterhalter11. Victimization and villainification as affective technologies in the Cyprus Conflict: the case of the ‘I Don’t Forget’ education policy, Michalinos Zembylas12. The return of the comparativist: estrangement, intercession, and profanation, António NóvoaIndex

A very valuable book with some intellectually profound chapters that appeal to readers interested in thinking about the ways in which the field of comparative education is being reconfigured in times of change and huge challenges for humanity.