Power, Culture and Education. Representation, Interpretation and Contestation is the title of Prof. Peter Mayo's forthcoming book, currently in press with Routledge. This is the latest of Prof. Mayo's 26 books to date, only 8 of which are edited, and his fifth book with Routledge.
This book combines sociology of art, cultural studies, sociology in general, sociology of education, politics and literature. The basis for this book was work carried out and presented at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in its PhD programme in Estudios Artisticos, Letterarios y Cultura ( Artistic, Literary and Culture Studies) in the Facultad de Lettres y Filosofia (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy). The work was presented with the title: Power, Culture and Society. Representation, Interpretation and Contestation.
It draws on and involves reworking of some previously published refereed articles in leading journals, of which Prof. Mayo has authored well over a hundred and fifty.
The book version, for which 'Education' replaces 'Society' in the title, has been accepted, following anonymous peer review, in Routledge's Cultural Interventions series edited by world renowned and prolific cultural critic, Henry A. Giroux. His co-editors are Rania Filippakou and Kenneth Saltman.
Prof. Mayo is an internationally widely published award winning author in sociology, politics, education (sociology of education, comparative education, adult education and higher education), cultural theory and cultural studies. He has held visiting professorial appointments at Canadian, Cypriot, English, Italian, Polish and Turkish universities and currently holds the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the University of Malta. He is also Honorary Professor for three years at the University of Nottingham.
He has had books published with, apart from Routledge, Zed Books, Bloomsbury Academic, Wiley-Blackwell, Manchester University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Zer0 Books, Peter Lang (New York), Società Editrice Fiorentina, Brill, ArteMedicas (Brazil), Argument (Germany), Praeger and Palgrave-Macmillan.
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