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This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan center of relative black prosperity and training ground of many movement leaders. On another is Albany. A city deep in the "black belt" of the plantation South, it is the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest civil rights setback. Somewhere in between is yet another Georgia, a Georgia whose communities once constituted hundreds of Jim Crow fiefdoms. In places like "Bad" Baker County near the southern border, or in the relatively moderate town...

Schools of Education as Sites of Resistance extends the discussions and critiques of neoliberalism in education by examining the potential for schools of education themselves to contest the types of policies that are typical in K-12 schooling. Drawing on a case study of faculty collaboration, this edited volume reimagines teacher preparation programs as crucial sites of resistance to and refusal of unsound education practices and legislation. The volume also reveals how education faculty can engage in collaborative scholarly work to investigate the anticipated and unanticipated effects of...

Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This volume explores how researchers around the globe are coming to terms - both theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental...

Schools of Education as Sites of Resistance extends the discussions and critiques of neoliberalism in education by examining the potential for schools of education themselves to contest the types of policies that are typical in K-12 schooling. Drawing on a case study of faculty collaboration, this edited volume reimagines teacher preparation programs as crucial sites of resistance to and refusal of unsound education practices and legislation. The volume also reveals how education faculty can engage in collaborative scholarly work to investigate the anticipated and unanticipated effects of...