%0 Journal Article
%T Interfering with Capitalism's Spell: Peter McLaren's Revolutionary Liminality
%A Samuel Day Fassbinder
%J International Journal of Progressive Education
%D 2006
%I International Association of Educators
%X McLaren¡¯s recent (post-2000) writings promote a form of agency called ¡°revolutionary critical pedagogy,¡± and a type of agent, the ¡°committed intellectual¡± (McLaren 2005b, p. 253-281). But one can find an earlier agent-type in McLaren¡¯s (1986) Schooling as a Ritual Performance, the ¡°liminal servant,¡± that explains how ¡°critical pedagogy is secured by the most fecund of revolutionary talismans, critique¡± (2005a: 9). Borrowing from Theodor Adorno (1968), I suggest that McLaren¡¯s recent writing uses aspects of the ¡°liminal servant¡± for the purpose of interfering with the ¡°spell¡± of capitalist social relations through ¡°revolutionary critical pedagogy.¡± The beginning prologue examines ¡°revolutionary liminality¡± in McLaren¡¯s writing; the second part explains how his written discursive strategies (naming the culprit, suggesting icons, theorizing to unite the disaffected) work to act out ¡°revolutionary liminality.¡±
%K revolutionary liminality
%K Peter McLaren
%K critical pedagogy
%U http://www.inased.org/v2n3/fassbinder.htm