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The Politics of Authoritarian Reformation: How Rightwing Activism Undermines Democracy and Belonging in a Suburban School District
The Politics of Authoritarian Reformation: How Rightwing Activism Undermines Democracy and Belonging in a Suburban School District
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105651
- ISBN
- 9798270246617
- DDC
- 379
- 서명/저자
- The Politics of Authoritarian Reformation: How Rightwing Activism Undermines Democracy and Belonging in a Suburban School District
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 233 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Turner, Erica O.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Since the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, rightwing activists across the US have mounted anti-equity campaigns that aim to limit curricula and reshape school policies. This dissertation examines how rightwing activism shapes the educational politics and policies of a suburban school district experiencing demographic, economic, and ideological change. This critical, process-oriented qualitative case study asks: How does rightwing activism work to construct a politics of belonging in a district? What means do rightwing activists use to shape schools and schooling? How do teacher activists understand, negotiate, and respond to these changes? Leveraging critical policy analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnographic methods, this work draws on interviews, archival research, document analysis, and fieldwork conducted over 18 months in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Local rightwing activists consolidated control over the school district by running well-financed campaigns fueled by reactionary rhetoric and coordinated through the local Republican party. In public testimony and school board debates, rightwing activists mobilized a localized form of White Christian Nationalism to construct an "us" victimized by "them." As rightwing activists consolidated power on the school board, they bent neoliberal mechanisms of standardization and surveillance to authoritarian aims through restrictive changes in policy that disproportionately impacted queer students and students of color. Teacher activists attempted to negotiate and resist rightwing efforts; however, many of these teacher activists experienced demoralization and consequently left the district or the profession. Rightwing activism in Waukesha is best understood as authoritarian reformation, a hegemonic project with three aims: reifying "traditional" conservative values of binary gender and heteronormativity; privileging White and wealthy families; and limiting democratic participation of marginalized and minoritized students and community members. This analysis of authoritarian reformation can inform school and community efforts to address anti-equity rightwing activism and to support radical egalitarian democracy.
- 일반주제명
- Education policy
- 일반주제명
- Education
- 일반주제명
- Educational sociology
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 키워드
- Belonging
- 키워드
- Democracy
- 키워드
- Hegemony
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Educational Policy Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
■500 ▼aAdvisor: Turner, Erica O.
■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
■520 ▼aSince the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, rightwing activists across the US have mounted anti-equity campaigns that aim to limit curricula and reshape school policies. This dissertation examines how rightwing activism shapes the educational politics and policies of a suburban school district experiencing demographic, economic, and ideological change. This critical, process-oriented qualitative case study asks: How does rightwing activism work to construct a politics of belonging in a district? What means do rightwing activists use to shape schools and schooling? How do teacher activists understand, negotiate, and respond to these changes? Leveraging critical policy analysis, critical discourse analysis, and ethnographic methods, this work draws on interviews, archival research, document analysis, and fieldwork conducted over 18 months in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Local rightwing activists consolidated control over the school district by running well-financed campaigns fueled by reactionary rhetoric and coordinated through the local Republican party. In public testimony and school board debates, rightwing activists mobilized a localized form of White Christian Nationalism to construct an "us" victimized by "them." As rightwing activists consolidated power on the school board, they bent neoliberal mechanisms of standardization and surveillance to authoritarian aims through restrictive changes in policy that disproportionately impacted queer students and students of color. Teacher activists attempted to negotiate and resist rightwing efforts; however, many of these teacher activists experienced demoralization and consequently left the district or the profession. Rightwing activism in Waukesha is best understood as authoritarian reformation, a hegemonic project with three aims: reifying "traditional" conservative values of binary gender and heteronormativity; privileging White and wealthy families; and limiting democratic participation of marginalized and minoritized students and community members. This analysis of authoritarian reformation can inform school and community efforts to address anti-equity rightwing activism and to support radical egalitarian democracy.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0262.
■650 4▼aEducation policy
■650 4▼aEducation
■650 4▼aEducational sociology
■650 4▼aPolitical science
■653 ▼aBelonging
■653 ▼aDemocracy
■653 ▼aHegemony
■653 ▼aPolitics of education
■653 ▼aRightwing activism
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■690 ▼a0515
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■71020▼aThe University of Wisconsin - Madison▼bEducational Policy Studies.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17361011▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


