The Edge of Race

Kalervo N. Gulson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research contributes to, and draws upon, education policy studies, sociology of education, race/ ethnicity, and social and cultural geography. His current research focuses on the relationship between education policy and calculative spaces, and what kind of life is possible within and through these calculative spaces. His recent publications include Education policy, space and the city: markets and the (in)visibility of race (2011), and Policy, geophilosophy, education (with T. Webb, 2015).Zeus Leonardo is Professor of Education, and Affiliated Faculty of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. He has published several dozen articles and book chapters on critical educational theory. His articles have appeared in Educational Researcher, Race Ethnicity & Education, and Teachers College Record. His recent books include Race Frameworks (2013), Education and Racism (with W. Norton Grubb, 2013), and Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education (ed. 2010).David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies, and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is founding editor of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education. He is twice winner of the 'Book of the Year' award by the Society for Educational Studies, most recently for Racism and Education: coincidence or conspiracy (2008). He received the Derrick Bell Legacy Award from the Critical Race Studies in Education Association, for demonstrating 'personal courage and professional commitment to supporting and advocating race equality in education', and was recently named to the Laureate Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi international honour society.