This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derridas framing of 'hauntology'in an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social studies contexts (and beyond). Traditionally, social studies education and its tenets of economics, civics, geography, government, and history have been concerned with how bodies become (re)produced, (re)located, destroyed, and remembered across vectors of time. However, as this work argues, the maintenance of strict demarcations of time becomes problematic by closing opportunities for students to engage with the complex ways that (material) bodies shift within temporal encounters. As such, this book is primarily concerned with pursuingand positioningsuch haunted encounters as generative lines of inquiry that grant us (e.g., educators, students, researchers) the ability to think differently about history, the present, and the future. In a distinct move toward a 'pastpresentfuture', this volume challenges the boundaries of social studies teaching, learning, and research by interrupting majoritarian temporal/material positionings that stymie how social and ecological justice is narrativized, understood, and perhaps most significantly, attained in the future.
Introduction From the Edges of In between ness.- Cosmic Consciousness
Curriculum Some Dreams and Possibilities.- The Ghosts of The Ghosts of Rwanda
A Hauntological Study of Genocide.- Invoking Ezili or Ride Ezili Ride Tracing
De Ant Colonial Hauntings in the Social Studies.- The Hauntings of Enslaved
Women and Children of Montpelier.- Intra view s of the Korean DMZ A
Hauntological Conversation on Eleana Kim s Making Peace with Nature.- We
Saved You a Seat A Haunted Storying of Adirondacks and Indian Hospitals in
Canada.- Of Ofrendas and Amoxcalli Libraries of the Living Dead.- Gordian
Curricula Entanglements of Consent Education and Stolen Possibilities Boni
Wozolek.- The Void is Not Blank Pedagogies of Absence.- Unsettling Hauntology
New Feminist Materialisms Indigenous Relational Ontologies and Social Studies
Education.- Hauntology Collaborative Mapping Online Journaling and Early
Childhood Education and Care.- De categorizing Social Studies Playful
Encounters with Derrida s Hauntology and Baudrillard s Illusion.- Haunting
Pedagogies Untangling Topological Time in Social Studies Education.- The
Ghosts in The Teachers Lounge Conjuring the Event in Schools.- Prepper
Pedagogies and the Spectral Presence of Catastrophe.- Feeling the Hauntings
of Race in Sports Discourse as Anti racist Social Studies Pedagogy.- Ghosts
of White Masculinity Affect Identity and Justice Through Social Studies.-
Making Stuff up The Hauntological Dimensions of Gaslighting as Media.
Bretton A. Varga is Assistant Professor of History-Social Science at California State University, Chico. His research and approach to meaning-making are shaped by a commitment to cultivate hope, imagination, speculation, care, love, and justice across more-than-human contexts. In particular, his scholarship works with(in) critical posthuman theories of temporality, materiality, and feeling to unveil harmful structures, logics, and practices that perpetuate racial injustice and ecological precarity.
