Researching Resistance

"Researching Resistance is a narrative of reinvention--both Dr. Huckaby's own and a model for societal reinvention--on multiple levels. It lays out a pathway of possible reinvention for ourselves as an education community and for society as a whole. And, believe me--Dr. Huckaby is unflinching. There is a lot in the book, both in history and in the present and future, that is really painful, and these realities are confronted unflinchingly. It is also grounded, intellectual, innovative, compassionate, joyful, pedagogic, brave, and inspiring. I sense Dr. Huckaby's joy in this work and her joy from participants as well. These are painful, hard things she is writing about. And yet there is joy here."

"It's a particularly delicious thing--to pick up something you have an idea what it might be only to find out your're totallly wrong, and enjoy it even more. Dr. Huckaby has pulled off something. She has worked over the ideas with such skill and put them together with media in ways that not just clever or cool, but actually helps us understand. She shows us and talks to us. Her voice is a singular voice of 'I', a narrative without ever feeling like it's about her. I have no idea how she writes like this."

Walter Gershon, Kent State

"Dr. Huckaby suggests that neoliberalism is a static noise of our contemporary lives. So I would suggest this book offers us a series of tools with and through which to lean in and to hear better; to hear through the static and make sense of these sounds. It took me a little while to realize what a tour de force the book was. It's a big deal. This book offers history, theory, field research method, personal narrative of this interlocutor and these woven and tangled threads guiding us through. Dr. Huckaby is both witness and participant in cahoots with the world, bringing into dialogue multiple texts, voices, chronicles, conversations, and media."

Arlo Kempf, University of Ontario

Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Images
List of QR Codes

SECTION I: AS I WRITE
1. Greetings & Salutations
  Fieldnotes: Society for Critical Educators
2. Hello Again
  Fieldnotes: New York

SECTION II: (IM)POSSIBILITIES
3. Elders & Ancestors
4. Miracles & Simulacra
  Fieldnotes: Chicago

SECTION III: SOLVED & UNRESOLVED
5. Turtle Island
  Colonial Schooling
  Political Economy
  Sovereignty & Freedom
6. Common & Public
  Feminization of Teaching
  Institutionalization
  Solution & Blame
  (De/Re)Segregation
7. Crisis & Competition
  Homo Œcodnomicus, Schooling & Blame
  Fieldnotes: Houston

SECTION IV: CYBORG WRITING
8.   Researcher | Researched         9. cyborg author
By Ruth Kravetz, Alpa Sridharan,
    Shilpa Sarang, and Anne Sung
    Deciding to trust . . .            reluctant cyborg
    Reflection on professors & academics . . .   cyborg perturbation
    Being part of student learning . . .       cyborg-sense
    Validation for our students and work . . .
    Wishes & possibilities . . .
    Suggestions for writing . . .
    Fieldnotes: Coalitions & Alliances

SECTION V: AS WE WEAVE
10. Fairytales & Poets

After
References
Index

M. Francyne Huckaby

M. Francyne Huckaby is Associate Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of Curriculum Studies, former Director of the Center for Public Education, and core faculty of Women and Gender Studies, Africana and African American Studies, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. Her honors include the TCU Deans’ Teaching Award for the College of Education, TCU Mortar Board Preferred Professor, and Straight for Equality from Fort Worth’s PFLAG chapter, as well as Outstanding Dissertation (2007 AERA, Qualitative Research SIG) for Challenging the Hegemony in Education: Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Care of the Self, and Relations of Power.