Precarity as Resistance and Cultural Solidarity

This discursive paper uses the work of Freire and others to propose a critical pedagogy for precarity which is grounded in forms of radical (post)politics. A critical pedagogy for precarity is proposed that calls for a replacement of, or synthesis with, the UK government’s employability in HE agend...

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Main Author: Abdul Aziz Hafiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Liverpool John Moores University 2017-07-01
Series:PRISM
Online Access:https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/prism/article/view/301
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