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11‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21st centuryEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1276-1284. 2022.
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31‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21st centuryTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-9. forthcoming..
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3The end of the decade: Reflecting on 2019 and looking forward to the next decadeTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-5. forthcoming..
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56The end of neoliberal globalisation and the rise of authoritarian populismEducational Philosophy and Theory 50 (4): 323-325. 2018.
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3The end of the decade: Reflecting on 2019 and looking forward to the next decadeEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1271-1275. 2022.
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25The Educational Mode of DevelopmentEducational Philosophy and Theory 45 (5): 477-481. 2013.No abstract
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29The emerging multipolar world order: A preliminary analysisEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1653-1663. 2023.The model of world order has changed dramatically in the postwar era from the bipolarity between the US and Soviet Russia that characterized the Cold War, to a period of unipolarity after the fall...
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19The disorder of things: Quarantine unemployment, the decline of neoliberalism, and the Covid-19 lockdown crashEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (12): 1195-1198. 2021.Rarely in economics does the field see such unambiguous causation as in the case of the Covid-19 shut down of the global economy. Pretty well every economist would agree to this proposition and whi...
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32The enlightenment and its critics1Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (9): 886-894. 2018.Volume 51, Issue 9, August 2019, Page 886-894.
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21The ‘crooked timber’ of humanitarianismEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (12): 1179-1186. 2019..
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7The coming pandemic eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 656-661. 2022.There is evidence and informed expert opinion that we are entering a coming age of pandemics where humanity is exposed to lethal and highly infectious bacterial or viral diseases that have the pote...
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34The curious promise of educationalising technological unemployment: What can places of learning really do about the future of work?Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (3): 242-254. 2018.University education is full of promise. Indeed universities have the capacity to create and shape, through staff and students, all kinds of enthralling ‘worlds’ and ‘new possibilities of life’. Yet students are encouraged increasingly to view universities as simply a means to an end, where neoliberal education delivers flexible skills to directly serve a certain type of capitalism. Additionally, the universal challenge of technological unemployment, alongside numerous other social issues, has b…Read more
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16The crisis of international educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (12): 1233-1242. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 12, November 2020, Page 1233-1242.
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16The Concept of Radical Openness and the New Logic of the PublicEducational Philosophy and Theory 45 (3): 239-242. 2013.No abstract
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31The case for academic plagiarism education: A PESA Executive collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1307-1323. 2022.
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28The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A SymposiumEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1531-1549. 2022.
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45The Chinese Dream: Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 49 (14): 1299-1304. 2017.
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20The Chinese Dream, Belt and Road Initiative and the future of education: A philosophical postscriptEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (7): 857-862. 2022.In the Preface to The Chinese Dream: Education the Future I wrote:This is a work in narrative. It tells a story about modern China – a story of an economic and cultural miracle. But...
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35Truth and truth-telling in the age of TrumpEducational Philosophy and Theory 50 (11): 1001-1007. 2018.
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22The ancient Silk Road and the birth of merchant capitalismEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 955-961. 2021.https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/silk-roadThe ancient Silk Road is an image and metaphor that has been revived as the basis for what President Xi has called ‘the project of the ce...
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18Truth and self-knowledgeTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (2): 105-111. 2019.Volume 53, Issue 2, February 2021, Page 105-111.
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164Towards a philosophy of academic publishingEducational Philosophy and Theory 48 (14): 1401-1425. 2016.This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of editors and reviewers of academic journals mostly in t…Read more
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23The aesthetics of collective writing: A Chinese/Western collective essayEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 888-896. 2023.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityThe ancient concept of ‘self-cultivation’ with its roots in Confucianism and Hellenistic philosophy can also be utilised as tool for understanding the prac...
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6Truth “After Postmodernism”: Wittgenstein and Postfoundationalism in Philosophy of EducationIn Stefan Ramaekers & Naomi Hodgson (eds.), Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education: Finding Space and Time for Research, Springer Verlag. pp. 89-100. 2018.In a range of path-breaking publications that shaped his engagement with educational theory Paul Smeyers sympathetically investigated the claims and ‘atmosphere’ of postmodernism. In this chapter I investigate the backlash against postmodernism that holds it responsible for ‘post-truth politics,’ and of promoting a cynical attitude to truth and facts. I argue for an intellectual history of truth in which it is contested, not only in Continental tradition and in what some have called postmodernis…Read more
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27The Armageddon Club: education for the future of humanityEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (8): 816-819. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 8, July 2020, Page 816-819.
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8Science, truth and conspiracy in the age of TrumpEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1647-1652. 2023.‘In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act’– George OrwellDonald Trump is on the come-back trail even although the ‘red wave did not originate at the midterms. Despite the deadly...
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12Satire, Swift and the deconstruction of the public intellectualEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (7): 849-856. 2022.It is intended that a large Academy be erected, capable of containing nine thousand seven hundred forty and three persons, which, by modest computation, is reckoned to be pretty near the current nu...
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26Self‐Editorializing: PESA and Educational Philosophy and Theory, after twenty‐five yearsEducational Philosophy and Theory 41 (7): 801-803. 2009.No Abstract
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