{"product_id":"juarez-girls-rising-transformative-education-in-times-of-dystopia-paperback-softback-9780816696543","title":"Juárez Girls Rising; Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816696543","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJuárez Girls Rising\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransformative Education in Times of Dystopia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClaudia G. Cervantes-Soon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816696543\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 27\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.328 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rarely do we read about the on-the-ground liberatory work of teachers and youths in schools and the agency of young women to live meaningful and joyous lives. In \u003ci\u003eJuÁrez Girls Rising\u003c\/i\u003e, the stories of the women and the school are beautifully interwoven, providing a powerful, nuanced, and compelling ethnography that neither victimizes nor romanticizes young, working-class women as they form meaningful identities and future possibilities in the context of gender-, race- and class-based violence.\"-Sofia Villenas, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An important and unique insider's perspective on the city of JuÁrez, \u003ci\u003eJuÁrez Girls Rising\u003c\/i\u003e provides a complex, detailed, and nuanced lens to better understand the multiple barriers young women in the city encounter.\"-Gilda L. Ochoa, author of \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The nuance with which Cervantes-Soon reflexively offers insights as an insider\/outsider in ways that are deeply reflective of humanizing research make it an ideal fit for courses on ethnography, qualitative methods, critical pedagogy, or culturally sustaining pedagogies.\"-\u003ci\u003eTeachers College Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Cervantes-Soon provides the reader with an understanding that moves beyond the often stigmatizing or pathologizing discourses constructing the city. This engages the reader in the compassionate empathy that characterizes the school ethos.\" -\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking-class girls in Ciudad JuÁrez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives and realize their aspirations. JuÁrez native Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon explores the vital role that transformative secondary education can play in promoting self-empowerment and a spirit of resistance to the violence and social injustice these girls encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together the voices of ten female students at Preparatoria Altavista, an innovative urban high school founded in 1968 on social justice principles, Cervantes-Soon offers a nuanced analysis of how students and their teachers together enact a transformative educational philosophy that promotes learning, self-authorship, and hope. Altavista’s curriculum is guided by the concept of \u003ci\u003eautogestiÓn\u003c\/i\u003e, a holistic and dialectical approach to individual and collective identity formation rooted in the students’ experiences and a critical understanding of their social realities. Through its sensitive ethnography, this book shows how female students actively construct their own meaning of \u003ci\u003eautogestiÓn\u003c\/i\u003e by making choices that they consider liberating and empowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuÁrez Girls Rising \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an alternative narrative to popular and often simplistic, sensationalizing, and stigmatizing discourses about those living in this urban borderland.  By merging the story of Preparatoria Altavista with the voices of its students, this singular book provides a window into the possibilities and complexities of coming of age during a dystopic era in which youth hold on to their critical hope and cultivate their wisdom even as the options for the future appear to crumble before their eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Countering Despair and Stigma through \u003ci\u003eAutogestiÓn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Border Paradoxes, Dystopia, and Revolutionary Education \u003cbr\u003e2. Through Girls’ Eyes: Coming of Age in Ciudad JuÁrez \u003cbr\u003e3. Enacting a Pedagogy of \u003ci\u003eAutogestiÓn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Building a Mujerista Space at Altavista\u003cbr\u003e5. Mujeres Autogestivas: Young Women Authoring Their Identities \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Life after Altavista\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570085753112,"sku":"9780816696543","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/juarez-girls-rising-transformative-education-in-times-of-dystopia-paperback-softback-9780816696543","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}