Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy A Critique of the Mised
Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy explores the relationship between power and resistance by critiquing the popular cultural image of the pirate represented in Pirates of the Caribbean. Of particular interest is the reliance on modernism’s binar
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Youth, Media, & Culture Series Volume 01 Series Editor: Shirley R. Steinberg, University of Calgary, Canada Editorial Board Giuliana Cucinelli, Concordia University, Montreal Rhonda Hammer, UCLA, USA Mark Helmsing, Michigan State University, USA Brian Johnson, Bloomburg University, PA, USA Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Scope Taking the notion of critical youth studies, this series features top scholars in critical media and youth studies. Coupling edgy topics with a critical theoretical lens, volumes explore the impact of media and culture on youth….and the impact of youth on media and culture.
Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy A Critique of the Miseducation of Davy Jones
Elizabeth Alford Pollock Independent Scholar
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For Tommy, Emily, and Abby And for all those teachers who have the courage to embrace the pirate within.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Pirates as Treasure Chests of Curricular Experiences Discovering the Treasure Reading the Treasure Map Limitations to the Text
1 1 3 5
1 On Being/Becoming a Pirate Constructing an Image Reading the Image Derrida...A Pirate? Teachers as Pirates
7 7 8 12 14
2 From Past Pirates to Post-Piracy Reading the Hooks and Crannies Dead Men Tell No Tales Davy Jones: Monstrous Mutation or Zombie Politician?
17 17 19 22
3 Pirate Captains, East India Companies and Questions of Representations Lord Cutler Beckett and the Occidental Tourist John Company and the Post-Colonial Question Circles, Ships and Symbolism
31 31 37 41
4 Lessons from Somalia: Pirates, Paradoxes, and the Erasure of Educational Corruption Exploring Piratical Revisions The Ecology of Contemporary Piracy The Pirates’ Paradox Under the Black Flag or Under Erasure
45 45 49 53 55
5 Pirates of the Caribbean and the Hypothetical Mass Man On the Revolt of the Masses The Characterization of Structural Violence
61 61 66
6 Pirates of the Caribbean, the Hypothetical Mass Man, and the Teacher in Between The Dichotomy of Good and Evil The Mass Man Trumps the Christian God Conditions of the Heart Traces of Love in a Pirate Code
79 79 81 84 90
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7 Welcome the Outlaw Looking Back, So as to Move Forward Charting a Course through Outlaw Pedagogy When We Accept, We C
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