Toward What Justice?: Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education

by Eve Tuck (Editor), K. Wayne Yang (Editor)

Toward What Justice? brings together compelling ideas from a wide range of intellectual traditions in education to discuss corresponding and sometimes competing definitions of justice. Leading scholars articulate new ideas and challenge entrenched views of what justice means when considered from the perspectives of diverse communities. Their chapters, written boldly and pressing directly into the difficult and even strained questions of justice, reflect on the contingencies and incongruences at work when considering what justice wants and requires. At its heart, Toward What Justice? is a book about justice projects, and the incommensurable investments that social justice projects can make. It is a must-have volume for scholars and students working at the intersection of education and Indigenous studies, critical disability studies, climate change research, queer studies, and more.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Indigenous, Research

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2018

Reviews

[versarbre]

A Canada-centric discussion on abolition and decolonization strategies; "a parallel politics of dialectical co-resistance. When Black peoples can still be killed but not murdered; when Indians are still made to disappear; when (Indigenous) land and Black bodies are still destroyed and accumulated for settler profit; it is incumbent upon all those who claim a commitment to refusing the white supremacist, capitalist, settler state, to do the hard work of building interconnected movements for decolonization” (Coulthard, 2014). The struggle is real. "P60

[Pete · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing collection of writings from scholars/activists on justice projects whose needs differ widely, yet somehow all fall together under what Tuck and Yang call the “rising sun of social justice.” The critiques are sharp, and the commitments to abolition and decolonization give the critiques a shape towards actualizing the calls for justice.

[Salamah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book on ideas surrounding justice but this book presents a lot of unconventional ideas about what is justice and what it is not. One of my favorite chapters was my Dumas and I am now interested in more of his work.

[Andrea Frankenfeld · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for a grad school class.

[Miguel · Rating 5 out of 5]

"That said, incommensurability does not necessarily mean separations of great distance. Incommensurability can be quite close, as close as two people holding hands under the same sign. An ethic of incommensurability is apprehending the small inner angle made between those two beings and the sign above. A separation as wide as the earth is a small inner angle with respect to the stars above." (p. 2)