Chapter 1: The Education Alibi: Tracing Processes of Responsibilization, Depoliticization, and the Production of Inequality. An Introduction.
Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Erdmute Alber (University of Bayreuth, Germany), and Wandia Njoya (Daystar University, Kenya)
Chapter 2: Responsibilizing Parents to Overcome Blindness: Changing Intergenerational Relations through Education For All in Northern Benin
Erdmute Alber (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Chapter 3: Symbolic Investment, Actual Indebtedness: The Competing Logics of the School Sector in Contemporary DRC (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga)
Edoardo Quaretta (Link Campus University, Italy)
Chapter 4: 'The teachers just consume our money': Casting Blame for Educational Failure in Rural Lesotho
Claire Dungey (King's College London, UK) and Nicola Ansell (Brunel University, UK)
Chapter 5: Changing the Narrative on School Arson in Kenya: Beyond Pathologizing and Criminalizing Approaches
Hildah Oburu (University of Nairobi, Kenya)
Chapter 6: Education without Critical Consciousness: An Autoethnography
Wandia Njoya (Daystar University, Kenya)
Chapter 7: Educational Reform in Times of Crisis: The Dual Missions of Corporatized Education in Liberia
Tyler Hook (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Chapter 8: 'Preserving Girls' Futures': Girlhood, Schooling, and Development in Niger
Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University, USA)
Chapter 9: Exam Securitization as Alibi: Education and the Distrustful Paradigm of Governance in Kenya
Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Chapter 10: The Paradox of South African Schooling: An Analysis of Multiple Exploitations of the Education Alibi
Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Chapter 11: The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering Systemic Discrimination in Access to Basic Education in Tanzania
Aikande Kwayu (Independent scholar, Tanzania)
Chapter 12: Education between Desire and Rejection: The Perspectives of Young Illiteracized People on Schooling in Benin
Issifou Abou Moumouni (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Chapter 13: Privilege of Prayer: Moral Becoming as Class Formation in Catholic Schools
Hansjoerg Dilger (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
