Eva Reimers is Professor of Educational Practice at Linköping University, Sweden.Lena Martinsson is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department for Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

‘A much needed rethinking of the variability of neoliberal education projects and neoliberal subjectivities in different national contexts.’ Steven Ward, Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University, USA‘Considering how neoliberalism works and what it does to education in specific national and local settings has been a key concern of critical sociology of education for some time. This collection of essays by Reimers, Martinson and colleagues extends this work by engaging in the crucial task of detailing the political subjects that are called up and curtailed in these conditions. Understanding the possibilities for responding to neoliberal tendencies in education remains a pressing task for scholars, activists and educators and so this collection provides important resources for thinking about and doing politics in and against neoliberal education.’ Deborah Youdell, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

• 1. Introduction: Making trouble with neoliberalism, education and political subjectivity 2. Politics, subjectivity and education in neoliberal times: An interview with Gert Biesta3. Messy norms and desire for education 4. Competition, accountability and performativity: Exploring schizoid neo-liberal ‘equality objectives’ in a UK primary school 5. Towards de-cold-war politics: Nationalism, democracy and new politics of/for education in Japan 6. Post-political governing of welfare state education in Sweden 7. Why education? Economic and political subjectivities in public discourses on education 8. Political subjectivity, political struggle and political education in times of precarization 9. Political subjectivity and the experiment of democracy – A conclusion

Eva Reimers is Professor of Educational Practice at Linköping University, Sweden.Lena Martinsson is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department for Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

‘A much needed rethinking of the variability of neoliberal education projects and neoliberal subjectivities in different national contexts.’ Steven Ward, Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University, USA‘Considering how neoliberalism works and what it does to education in specific national and local settings has been a key concern of critical sociology of education for some time. This collection of essays by Reimers, Martinson and colleagues extends this work by engaging in the crucial task of detailing the political subjects that are called up and curtailed in these conditions. Understanding the possibilities for responding to neoliberal tendencies in education remains a pressing task for scholars, activists and educators and so this collection provides important resources for thinking about and doing politics in and against neoliberal education.’ Deborah Youdell, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

• 1. Introduction: Making trouble with neoliberalism, education and political subjectivity 2. Politics, subjectivity and education in neoliberal times: An interview with Gert Biesta3. Messy norms and desire for education 4. Competition, accountability and performativity: Exploring schizoid neo-liberal ‘equality objectives’ in a UK primary school 5. Towards de-cold-war politics: Nationalism, democracy and new politics of/for education in Japan 6. Post-political governing of welfare state education in Sweden 7. Why education? Economic and political subjectivities in public discourses on education 8. Political subjectivity, political struggle and political education in times of precarization 9. Political subjectivity and the experiment of democracy – A conclusion