Scaling Intersectional Praxes
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education, 2022, pp. 341-354
- Issue Date:
- 2022-02-14
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Around the globe, Marxism has provided an eclectic and rich pool of resources for praxes that is responsive to place-based manifestations of exploitation, oppression, power and injustice. Despite the crimes of some communist and socialist states, representative of cult ideologies such as Stalinism, Maoism, and Kimilsungism, Marx’s critique of capitalism continues to inspire praxes toward a broad range of alternative futures. As a dynamic socio-spatial project, open forms of Marxism have displayed a generative capacity to learn from failure,
mistakes and shortcomings. Similarly, encompassing many different positions and tendencies, Marxist educational theory and practice has learned from its
missteps and shortcomings. Yet, recurring blindspots in Marxist educational scholarship presents an opportunity to engage in dialogue and learning with a broader range of disciplines and contexts. A well-established, and still growing body of Marxist educational scholar- ship has explored the relevance of education to diverse activist contexts, from traditional labour organisations to new social movements, with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of colour) communities. For the most part, this research has privileged demonstrative, highly visible elements of these phenomena. Forced into the shadows are vital forms of education that are embodied and
embedded in activists’ daily lives and practices (Martin et al., 2007; Ollis, 2020). Contributing to this oversight, some theoretical contributions have fetishised
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