List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Local Classes, Global Influences - Considerations on the Social Aesthetics of Elite Schools
Vignette: The Fullness of Taste
Distinguished Spaces: Elite schools as Cartographers of Privilege
VISUAL ESSAY: SPACE
The (semiotics of) Social Aesthetics in an Elite School in Singapore: An Ethnographic Study
VISUAL ESSAY: SEMIOTIC ECOLOGY
Vignette: Sound
Cultivating Students' Bodies: producing physical, poetic and sociopolitical subjectivities in elite schools
VISUAL ESSAY: BODIES
The Visual Field of Barbadian Elite Schooling: Towards Postcolonial Social Aesthetics
Vignette: Sight
Looking Inside and Out: Social Aesthetics of an Elite School in India
VISUAL ESSAY: HISTORIES
Vignette: The Touch of Class
Afterword
About the Author: Johannah Fahey is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests are located in the areas of education and global studies, and are informed by her expertise in cultural studies. She has a national and international reputation in the areas of intersectionality (gender, race and class), and cultural globalization and mobilities. She is the co-editor of Globalizing the Research Imagination (Routledge 2009); and co-author/author of Haunting the Knowledge Economy (Routledge 2006) and David Noonan: Before and Now (Thames & Hudson 2004).
Howard Prosser researches and teaches at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. He has taught history in Australian secondary schools and universities. His research interests include Social Theory, History of Ideas, and Ethnography. Most recently he has been working on a study of political culture at an elite school in Argentina.
Matthew Shaw is a PhD candidate in the Education Faculty at Monash University, Australia. His interests lie in history including the history of sport as well as the place of sport in schools and society. His dissertation looks at the role sport has in a divided society and the way it is used to reinforce or break down boundaries.
