Explores the pedagogical moments or "flashpoints" when sociocultural formations of difference and power take hold through the corporeal capacities of the knowing body
Features concisely written accounts of flashpoints that attend to the somatic intensities of the flesh as a site of knowledge, resistance, and transformation
Contributors range from a number of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, women's studies, and education
Presents rich phenomenologically informed case studies of educational encounters within difference, and demonstrates description as a method for thinking about critical incidents of teaching and learning This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints--educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience. The flashpoints will ignite critical reflection and dialogue about the formation of the self, identity, and social inequality on the level of the preconscious body.