While it is easy to underestimate the role of theory throughout social studies education, this book shows that theory is always-already present in all productions of teaching and learning. In this collection, scholars highlight a broad range of theories that are currently being used to alter the landscape of social studies instruction.

Contents Acknowledgments  xi Foreword: Looking Out for Theoretical Plausibilities Vonzell Agosto  xiii Introduction: Always-Already on the Lookout Searching for, Enacting, and Storying Theory in Social Studies Education Bretton A. Varga and Erin C. Adams  1 1.  Academic’s Disease  10 Tommy Ender 2.  Affect as Potential: Interrupting Social Studies Education  18 Peter M. Nelson 3.  Beyond the Majority Rules: Anarchism in Social Studies Education  25 John Lupinacci and Brandon Edwards-Schuth 4.  Phobogenic Hypervisibility as the Invisibility of Black Men and Boys  32 Daniel Josiah Thomas III 5.  To Live Differently: Haecceity and Becoming as Concepts to (Un)do Social Studies Education  39 Rebecca C. Christ 6.  “Don’t Just Thank Black Women. Follow Us.”: Black Feminist Civic Activism  45 Amanda E. Vickery 7.  “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free”: Black Feminism’s Implications for Social Studies Education Research  53 Kristen E. Duncan 8.  Emphasis on Radical: Centering Black Feminist Radical Politics  59 Tiffany Mitchell Patterson 9.  Moving Toward Interdependent Relations and Anti-Colonial Understandings With Theories of Post-Critical Global Citizenship  65 Timothy Patterson and Jenni Conrad 10.  Critical Refugee Studies Encounter Social Studies  73 Sohyun An 11.  Decolonial Global Citizenship Education  79 Theresa Alviar-Martin and Mark Baildon 12.  “No Humans Involved” Revisited: What Social Studies Might Learn From Sylvia Wynter’s Examinations of Columbus and the Rodney King Trial  86 Esther June Kim 13.  Schools as Apparatuses of Security: Governmentality and True Power  93 Wayne Journell 14.  “They Got Us Warring for Our Freedom”: Toward a TrapCrit Perspective for Social Studies Education  99 Kelly R. Allen 15.  How Hyperreality Morphs Social Studies Inquiries  106 Cathryn van Kessel 16.  Intergenerational Knowledge: Embodied Archives and Silenced Narratives in Education  114 Muna Saleh 17.  Reflecting on the Mimetic: (Material) Double-Dealings and Duplicities Within Social Studies Education  121 Erin C. Adams and Bretton A. Varga 18.  Mobilities Theory and Social Studies Education  129 Stacey L. Kerr 19.  I’m With Them: Enacting a Pedagogy of Solidarity  135 Ryan Oto 20.  Choosing to Teach in Pointy Heels (and Other Postfeminist Dilemmas)  142 Mardi Schmeichel 21.  Psychoanalysis and Social Studies Education  148 H. James Garrett 22.  Queer Geography  155 Sandra J. Schmidt 23.  Intentionally Hidden From the Masses: (Racial) Capitalism’s Omission in the Social Studies  161 Jillian Ford 24.  Defiant, Playful, and Inventive: Rasquache Social Studies Theorizing  168 Tim Monreal 25  Witnessing Scar(ring)s: Settler Colonial Theory for Social Studies Education Research  178 Sarah B. Shear 26.  Sociogenesis and Social Studies Education  186 Danielle I. Charlemagne 27.  “Social” Sustainability and Its Implications on Teaching and Learning in Social Studies  194 Yun-Wen Chan 28.  Technoskepticism in Social Studies Education  202 Daniel G. Krutka, Marie K. Heath, and Jacob Pleasants 29.  On the Insufficiency of Counterstories: Empathic Fallacy and (Un)Expected Readers  209 Noreen Naseem Rodríguez Afterword: Imagining Possible Futures in Social Studies Education and Beyond  216 E. Wayne Ross Endnotes  223 Index  227 About the Editors and Contributors  238

“The authors ask readers to maintain a sense of urgency to study social life, critique power relations, and be on the lookout for theoretical im/plausibilities.” —From the Foreword by Vonzell Agosto, professor, educational leadership and policy studies, University of South Florida