Judith Butler, Race and Education

Charlotte Chadderton is Professor of Education at Bath Spa University. Her research is in the field of social justice in Education with a particular focus on race (in)equality and on the way in which different kinds of inequalities are produced and reproduced in educational spaces, and by educational processes.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Judith Butler, Race and Education: what can a Butlerian framework provide?.- Chapter 3. The work of Judith Butler and the study of race.- Chapter 4. Race as a hegemonic norm: citizenship education and the production of raced British subjects.- Chapter 5. Making whiteness and acting white: the performativity of race and race as a performative.- Chapter 6. Aspirations and intelligible subjects.- Chapter 7. The 'Prevent' agenda in Higher Education: Sovereignty and state power to desubjectivate.- Chapter 8. The role of race in research through a 'Butlerian' lens: Representation, knowledge and voice.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Butlerian approach to social transformation in education.