Privilege, Agency and Affect

1. Introduction: Privilege, Agency and Affect — Understanding the Production and Effects of Action
Claire Maxwell, Peter Aggleton

Part I. Privilege, Emotions and Reproduction Through Elite Education

2. The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Aaron Koh

3. The Sense of Entitlement
Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Kate Cairns, Chandni Desai

4. Elite School Capitals and Girls’ Schooling: Understanding the (Re)production of Privilege through a Habitus of ‘Assuredness’
Joan Forbes, Bob Lingard

Part II. Agency and Affect In and Through Higher Education

5. The Space of Academia: Privilege, Agency and the Erasure of Affect
Sue Clegg

6. Institutional Accountability and Intellectual Authority: Unconscious Fantasies and Fragile Identifications in Contemporary Academic Practice
Claudia Lapping

7. Privilege, Agency and Affect in the Academy: Who Do You Think You Are?
Valerie Hey

Part III. Privilege, Dominance and Hierarchy Between Families and Communities

8. ‘Mumsnetiquette’: Online Affect within Parenting Culture
Tracey Jensen

9. Regenerational Selves and Regional ‘Resilience’: Agency, Entitlement and Privilege in the North East of England
Yvette Taylor

Part IV. Agency, Privilege and Social Justice

10. The White Middle Classes and Urban Comprehensive Schools: Ambivalences and Anxieties of Privilege
Diane Reay

11. Negotiating Privilege through Social Justice Efforts
Adam Howard

12. Gender on Class Journeys
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

Part V. End Notes

13. Feeling Rules, Atmospheres and Affective Practice: Some Reflections on the Analysis of Emotional Episodes
Margaret Wetherell

14. Privileging and Affecting Agency
Laura M. Ahearn

15. Privilege, Agency and Affect: Moving Further Debate
Claire Maxwell, Peter Aggleton

Avainsanat: Education, Sociology of Education, Gender and Education, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Education, Social Theory, Personality and Social Psychology