PUBLICATIONS
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2023
‘Beyond colonial futures in climate education,’ with S. Stein et al., Teaching in Higher Education, 2023, forthcoming.
‘From a modern/colonial sensorium to relational response-ability – listening in to what separation has to say’. Journal of Sonic Studies, Special Issue: Voice and Listening as Techniques for Political Life, 2023, 24.
Dani d’Emilia in conversation with Caro Novella and edited with Sarah Amsler (2023) ‘La práctica artística como proceso de metabolización y sanación: reflexiones sobre el performance U TE(A)R US’ (Artistic practice as a process of metabolization and healing: reflextions on the performance U TE(A)R US), Posología: Microdosis Transfeministas para la Salud (Posología: Transfeminist Microdoses for Health). Ed. by Caro Novella Centellas y María Zapata Hidalgo, Navarre: Txalaparta.
2022
‘Restoring relationality: committing to deepening decolonial sensibilities in educational research’ in H. Castañeda-Peña, C. H. Guerrero, P. Méndez Rivera, M. Martínez, M. Castañeda Usaquén, P. Cabrejo, Y. Aldana, Y. F. Liu. Methodological Uncertainties of Educational Research in English Language Teaching Education II. Bogotá, Universidad Distrital Fransisco José de Caldas.
‘Methodologies for gesturing towards decolonial futures’ (with S. Stein, V. Andreotti, C. Ahenakew, R. Suša , E. Jimmy, W. Valley, C. Cardoso, D. Siwek, T. Cajkova, D. d’Emilia, N. Huni Kui, M. Tremembe, R. Pitaguary, B. Pitaguary, N. Pitaguary, L. Mario de Souza, and B. Calhoun) in A. Tachine (ed.) Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relation Methodological Practice. VA: Stylus Publishing.
‘Challenging complacency in K–12 climate change education in Canada: decolonial and Indigenous perspectives for designing curricula beyond sustainable development’ (with J. Kerr) in A. Farrell, C. Skyhar and M. Lam (eds) Teaching in the Anthropocene. Canadian Scholars Press.
2021
Developing Stamina for Decolonizing Higher Education: A Workbook for Non-Indigenous People (with Stein, S., Ahenakew, C., Jimmy, E., Andreotti, V., Valley, W., Amsler, S., Calhoun, B. and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective). Higher Education Otherwise. Image by Indigenous Artist Benicio Pitaguary.
Forward for The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History by Richard Hall. London, May-fly books.
“‘Who else is gonna do it if we don’t?” Gender, education and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike’ (with N. Weiss Hanrahan). Gender, Work and Organization, 29(1): 151-166.
2020
‘Interculturality in teacher education in times of unprecedented global challenges’ (with J. Kerr and V. Andreotti). Education and Society, 38(1): 13-37.
‘Gesturing toward decolonial futures: reflections on our learnings’ (with S. Stein, V. Adreotti, R. Suša, D. Hunt, C. Ahenakew, E. Jimmy, T. Čajková, W. Valley, C. Cardoso, D. Siwek, B. Pitaguary, U. Pataxó, D. d’Emilia, B. Calhoun, H. Okano). Nordic Journal of International and Comparative Education, 4(1): 43-65.
‘Learn like witches: gesturing towards Further Education otherwise’ in Caliban’s Dance: FE After the Tempest, ed. by K. Orr, M. Dailey and J. Petrie (eds). London, Institute of Education Press.
2019
‘Gesturing towards radical futurity in education for alternative futures’. Special Issue on the Politics of Making and Un-Making (Sustainable) Futures. Sustainability Science, 14(4): 925-930.
Global Citizenship Otherwise Study Program (with V. de Oliveira Andreotti, S. Stein, R. Suša , T. Cajkova, D. d’Emilia, E. Jimmy, B. Calhoun, C. Cardoso, D. Siwek and K. Fay). Musagetes Foundation. Image ‘Earth’ by Vanessa Andreotti.
2018
‘Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times’ (with V. Andreotti, S. Stein, A. Sutherland, K. Pashby, R. Suša and the Gesturing towards Decolonial Futures Collective). Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, 28: 9-41.
‘Disobeying reality: the value of concrete utopia in education’. Post-16 Educator, 94: 6-8.
‘Delinking, decamping, deprofessionalising’, Undisciplining thinking: thinking knowledge production outside the university’, Knowledge, Power and Politics, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 8 June.
‘Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis’ (with N. Weiss Hanrahan). Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 2(4): 55-73.
‘Critique and possibility in cultural sociology’ (with N. Weiss Hanrahan) in Hall, J., Grindstaff, L. and Lo, M. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd ed., NY, Routledge.
‘Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference “Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 26 July 2018.
2017
‘Learning the Future Otherwise: Emerging Approaches to Critical Anticipation in Education’ (with K. Facer). Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Future Studies, Special Issue 94.
Introduction to ‘Learning the Future Otherwise: Emerging Approaches to Critical Anticipation in Education’ (with K. Facer). Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Future Studies, 94: 1-5.
‘Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future’ (with K. Facer). Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Future Studies, 94: 6-14, .
‘Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society’ in A. C. Dinerstein (ed.) Social Sciences for An Other Politics: Women Theorizing without Parachutes. NY, Palgrave Macmillan.
‘What do we mean when we say “democracy?” Learning towards a common future with popular higher education’ in R. Howarth (ed.) Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces. London: PM Press.
‘“IInsane with courage”: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical and contemporary perspective’, Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 10(1): 5-23.
‘The marketised university and the politics of motherhood‘ (with S. C. Motta). Gender and Education, 31(1).
2015
The Education of Radical Democracy. London, Routledge.
‘Anaconda power and the politics of possibility,’ ISRF Bulletin 6: Power, 2 April.
‘Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching‘, with Z. Davy and K. Duncombe, Qualitative Research in Education, 4(2): 134-162.
Older (POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGe, Educational activism, critical & radical pedagogy)
‘The radical in engaged artistic practices,’ Contemporary Theatre Review, 2014, 24(2): 287.
‘Imagining unthinkable spaces,’ with my dad M. Amsler, Argos Aotearoa, 2014, 1(1).
‘“By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education,’ Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2014, 22(2): 275-294.
‘For a feminist consciousness in the academy,’ Politics and Culture, Special Issue: Materialist Feminisms against Neoliberalism,’ March 2014.
‘Criticality, pedagogy and the promises of radical democratic education’ in Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond the University, Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
‘University ranking: a dialogue on turning towards alternatives,’ Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2013, 13(2): 1-12.
‘An experiment in free, co-operative, higher education’ (with the Social Science Centre Collective). Radical Philosophy, 2013, 182 (November/December).
Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy Within, Against and Beyond the University, with J. Canaan, S. Cowden, S. Motta and G. Singh, G., London: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Critical pedagogy, critical theory and critical hope’ in Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond the University, Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
‘Occupy: a new pedagogy of space and time?’ with M. Neary, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2012, 10(2).
‘University ranking as social exclusion,’ with C. Bolsmann, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012, 33(2): 283-301.
‘Revalorising the critical attitude for critical education,’ Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011, 9(2).
‘Beyond all reason: spaces of hope in the struggle for England’s universities,’ Representations, 2011, 116: 90-114.
‘Strivings towards a politics of possibility,’ Graduate Journal of Social Sciences, 2011, 8(1): 83-103.
‘Creative militancy, militant creativity & the new student movement,’ Post-16 Educator, 2011, 61: 5-6.
‘From “therapeutic” to political education: the centrality of affective sensibility in critical pedagogy,’ Critical Studies in Education, 2011, 52(1): 47-64.
Why Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Matter Today, with J. Canaan, S. Cowden, S. Motta and G. Singh, G., Birmingham: Higher Education Academy, 2010.
‘Re-imagining critique in cultural sociology’, with N. Hanrahan, in Hall, J., Grindstaff, L. and Lo, M. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Routledge, 2010.
‘Bringing hope “to crisis”: crisis thinking, ethical action and social change’ in Skrimshire, S. (ed.) Future Ethics: Climate Change and Political Action, Continuum, 2010.
‘Promising futures: “education” as a resource of hope in post-socialist society,’ Europe-Asia Studies, 2009, 61(7): 1189-1206.
‘Embracing the politics of ambiguity: towards a normative theory of “sustainability”,’ Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2009, 20(2): 111-125.
‘Pedagogy against dis-utopia: from conscientization to the education of desire,’ Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2008, 25: 291-325.
The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia: Social Science between Marx and the Market, London: Routledge, 2007.
‘Higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan: the politics of neoliberal agendas in theory and practice’ in Structure and Agency in the Neo-liberal University, Routledge, 2007.
Theorizing Social Change in Post-Socialist Societies: Critical Perspectives, with B. Sanghera and T. Yarkova, London: Peter Lang, 2007.
theses
From Truth in Strength to Strength in Truth’: Sociology, Knowledge and Power in Kyrgyzstan, 1966-2003, PhD thesis, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005.
Framing a National Consciousness: Representations of Class in Historical Exhibits at the National Museum of American History, 1957-1985, Master’s thesis, George Mason University. 1998.
Sarah Amsler 