Böcker av Alan Sears

Social justice activist and academic Alan Sears delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labor and sexuality. Our instinctual drive to shape the world around us and fulfill ourselves through labor is subverted by capitalist alienation, leaving us to find fulfillment elsewhere. As a result, our erotic drives become the central focus for transformation and life-making. Still, they are restricted and fuelled by whatever energy is left after completing the monetized or social reproductive work required to survive. This alienation encounters ongoing resistance, as life-making activity can never be entirely separated from the person who labors. Alan Sears explores the ways this alienation frames the processes of gender and sexual formation, showing how the organization of work contributes to the development of a dominant regime of gendered sexualities, defined by a binary gender mapping of desire as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual.

This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.

Through the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life.

Examines contemporary expressions of the secularising agenda in Western democracies with a focus on how that is played out in education. This book demonstrates how republican theory understood within a faith perspective provides a shared understanding and substantive basis for education within a Western democracy.

This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry.

Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change.

The Next New Left explores the challenge of activist renewal in the age of austerity. Over the past few decades, state policy-makers and employers have engaged in a massive process of neo-liberal restructuring that has undermined the basis for social and labour movements. In this book, Alan Sears seeks to understand the social environment that