Cameron Mccarthy

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | UIUC · Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership

Session 1: Make My Syllabus Nicer: Exploring Generative AI for Inclusivity and Accessibility in LIS Instruction Rebecca J.Morris (University, of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, US) Though certainly not a magic formula, LIS instructors’ use of generative AI tools can support accessibility and inclusivity in design and adaptation of...

Racism is a type of systematic power abuse by a dominant group against diverse minorities through discursive and material practices (Van Dijk, 2021). This article draws attention to the generation of racializing discourses, particularly towards the Haitian immigrant population in Chile, in (a) mass media, which mainly focuses on radio, television,...

Este artículo pretende ser una respuesta abiertamente polémica al asesinato de George Floyd, autorizado por el Estado, y a la propulsión de las luchas de Black Lives Matter en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo. Aborda específicamente estos asuntos en el marco de la controvertida monumentalización y consagración de la supremacía blanca en la cod...

Este artículo pretende ser una respuesta abiertamente polémica al asesinato de George Floyd, autorizado por el Estado, y a la propulsión de las luchas de Black Lives Matter en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo. Aborda específicamente estos asuntos en el marco de la controvertida monumentalización y consagración de la supremacía blanca en la cod...

This article is intended as an openly polemic response to the state-sanctioned murder of George Floyd and the propulsion of Black Lives Matter struggles across the United States and around the globe. It specifically addresses these issues within the framework of the contested monumentalization and consecration of white supremacy in the codification...

In this chapter, the authors outline why and how they developed and deployed the notion of multi-sited global ethnography to study elite schools, globalization, and social class formations and expressions. They offer some selected glimpses of the narratives and insights that arose through their inquiries. The authors look at the intersections betwe...

Across the globe, women are struggling to overcome social and cultural confines, while creating new opportunities for their gender, by becoming leaders in research and career fields from which they have been historically excluded. This afterword responds to and builds upon contributors’ trenchant articles that highlight social, economic, and techno...

We concentrate on school principals in this chapter and on the various ways they seek to position their schools, staff and students on the global stage while, at the same time, trying to remain faithful to the schools’ and the nations’ roots. Their own biographies prove central to the manner in which, and how successfully, they navigate the tension...

We conclude the book by drawing together the connections, conjunctions, juxtapositions and disjunctions that are involved when elite schools undertake class choreography on the global stage. And we consider how they might choreograph their futures as their own contradictions become more manifest and the challenges to their supremacy mount.

This chapter shifts the focus from England to the various (former) colonies in which we conducted our fieldwork. Here, we examine the coiled conditions of these interlinked but diverse histories of British colonialism, capitalism and Christianity in the contexts of Australia, Barbados, England, Hong Kong, India, Singapore and South Africa. The unev...

Students in elite schools live their lives largely through the prism of privilege and, in this chapter, we concentrate on what this means for their politics. We probe the ways students engage their privilege, what they currently do with it and what they plan to do with it in their futures, pointing to the political spectra across which they range....

Mobility is the chief concern of this chapter in which we identify some of the elite global circuits that the schools participate in. We show how the schools use the mobilities made possible through prestigious, transnational organizations of elite schools to assist them to produce leaders. And we draw out the details of some students’ itineraries,...

This chapter examines how public schools and the public school system evolved in England and indicates how they were linked, over time, to shifting national and colonial social power relationships. We offer this history for a number of reasons. First, the particular model of elite schooling in the seven different former British colonies that we add...

In this chapter, we point to the institutional tussles involved as the schools seek to reshape their curricula so that they intersect in the most propitious ways with global, national and local imperatives. The most significant disputations, we illustrate, involve examination systems, language studies and national versus international curricula. We...

In this chapter we illustrate how, through their iconography and rituals, our research schools marshal represent and use their history and heritage as markers of prestige and success. Thus, we call attention to their manipulation and modulation of history to meet present challenges and the pressure of globalizing change. The chapter shows how the s...

Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous performances as they stage and restage changing relations of ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to shifting historical conditions and cultural tastes. In multiple theatres, they now regularly rehearse t...

In this article the postcolonial context is a site of production of knowledge from where a reflection over the different lines of development within cultural Marxism in the way these are presented and developed in cultural studies. From there, begins a reflection on contemporary aesthetics understanding that aesthetic practices are linked to the wo...

This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of “the rise of the ludic sublime,” where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of “philitainment,” Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed “communicative capitalism” and t...

This special issue is based entirely on the research project called ‘Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography' and this opening essay introduces both the project and the essays to follow. It offers a justification for studying elite schools, elites and elitism and explains some of the project's guidin...

In her book, Neoliberalism as Exception, Aihwa Ong usefully observes that the North American university has been dirempted from it historical role of preparing young people for democratic citizenship. It has instead, according to Ong, become the great global marketplace and grand bazaar for international students' ambitions. In what follows, we dra...

Drawing on the insights of Walter Benjamin, David Harvey and Aihwa Ong, I examine contemporary Chicago as a global city propelled by powerful logics of gentrification that are consequential to race, space and the struggle over the iconography of the present and the future. This struggle has a powerful material neoliberal dimension deeply imbricated...

Thesis (M.A.)--Acadia University, 1994. Includes bibliographical references.