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Unsettling Choice
2024
Overview
How the Great Recession revealed a system of school
choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean
when codified as individual, private choices? Is the \"problem\" of
school choice actually not about better choices for all but,
rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice
engenders-guaranteeing a system of winners and losers?
Unsettling Choice addresses such questions through a
compelling ethnography that illuminates how one path of neoliberal
restructuring in the United States emerged in tandem with, and in
response to, the Civil Rights movement.
Drawing on ethnographic research in one New York City school
district, Unsettling Choice traces the contestations that
surfaced when, in the wake of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, public
schools navigated austerity by expanding choice-based programs.
Ujju Aggarwal argues that this strategy, positioned as \"saving
public schools,\" mobilized mechanisms rooted in market logics to
recruit families with economic capital on their side, thereby
solidifying a public sphere that increasingly resembled the
private-where contingency was anticipated and rights for some were
marked by intensified precarity for poor and working-class Black
and Latinx families.
As Unsettling Choice shows, these struggles over public
schools-one of the last remaining universal public goods in the
United States-were entrapped within neoliberal regimes that
exceeded privatization and ensured exclusion even as they were
couched in language of equity, diversity, care, and rights. And yet
this richly detailed and engaging book also tracks an architecture
of expansive rights, care, and belonging built among poor and
working-class parents at a Head Start center, whose critique of
choice helps us understand how we might struggle for-and
reimagine-justice, and a public that remains to be won.
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
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ISBN
9781517915674, 1517915678, 9781452970349, 1452970343
