"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"
This book has lots of interesting ideas that are helping me refine my thinking of political change, moral panic, citizenship in a democracy, and empathy or compassion as a political emotion (souring into pity).
Gonna think about how to translate this to plainer English...
Wow this book is great! I didn't know about necropolitics before, and now I've got a clear explanation of this new (to me) concept and its connection to sentimentality. Now I can explain why pleas for greater empathy for children's suffering is problematic if they are not connected to the expansion of children's agency (not "interests") and adult's responsibilities toward children (not paternalism or "deciding what's best").
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