Castro’s research while affiliated with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and other places

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The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity: elite Barbadian schools in globalising circumstances
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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 draw on Ong's insights. Specifically, we report on a global ethnographic study that looks at the way in which six form students (whom we are calling the ‘Argonauts’) in two Barbadian elite schools – Old Cloisters and Ardent Arbors – are orienting themselves to the future in a moment of aggressive recruiting by North American universities. These developments bring students' global imaginations into profound tension with historical narratives and traditions linking these schools to England. This new context is epitomised by the transactions between the students and international college representatives at an annual international college fair that brings North American recruiters to the island in search of academic talent. We document this encounter at some length, pointing to the collision between the students' roiling ambitions and the schools' deep sense of heritage and tradition linked to the metropolitan paradigm of British public school traditions.

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... 'Institutional wormholes' (Nespor, 2014) are therefore created and embedded at a regional or global level (see Münch, this volume in his discussion of elite universities). However, elite schools shape and re-articulate their charter, claiming elite-ness usually in relation to the nation state within which they find themselves (McCarthy et al., 2014;Rizvi, 2014;Maxwell & Aggleton, 2016a), although the case of elite schools in Switzerland offers an interesting counter-point to this argument, which is only now beginning to be researched (Bertron, 2016). Research also continues to emphasize how nationally-bounded trajectories into elite labour-market positions remain (van Zanten & Maxwell, 2015;Mangset, 2017;Mangset et al., 2017;Hartmann and Bloch et al., this volume). ...

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Changing Spaces—The Reshaping of (Elite) Education Through Internationalisation
The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity: elite Barbadian schools in globalising circumstances