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Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk
Co-authored by UniSA Associate Professor Melanie Baak (with Ben Adams, Garth Stahl and Samantha Schulz) from the UniSA Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI).
Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk documents and analyses efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities. Schools worldwide are increasingly enlisted in the efforts of nation-states to prevent or counter violent extremism. However, since extremism is a notoriously complex and difficult concept to define, attempts to counter violent extremism are inevitably entangled in issues of political and social power. Through the lens of affective governance – which refers to a style of governing emphasising the emotional and psychological needs of citizens, as well as their sense of connection and belonging to their community – this book draws attention to how policy enactment can be closely aligned with government agendas revolving around the management of risk. The authors argue that extremism is closely tied to systemic marginalisation and, while efforts to combat a susceptibility to extremism are important, so is a continual critique of such efforts. This is especially true when approaches are aimed at populations who are already marginalised.
Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk is available from Rowman & Littlefield.
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