Amnesically

[…] amnesically remember the arms race, the international embargoes, the military interventions, the suppression of Marxist revolutionaries, the threats of […]

[referring to author Michele Lynn Harris] Her manuscript Blackdamp explores the cultural, historical, and emotional geography of rural Western Pennsylvania — a landscape once lit orange by the blast furnaces of steel mills, pockmarked by industry, and now amnesically pastoral. She hopes to resuscitate the memory of this place where woods have grown over whole towns, where a flood struck so deadly it caused fires, and where flowers grow Bunsen-blue among jagger bushes.

Such assertions simultaneously and amnesically overlook the diverse ways in which schools have collaborated over the years (Armstrong and Ainscow, 2018; Keddie, 2014) — indeed, collective professional amnesia appears to be fundamental to making new education reforms work (Gunter, forthcoming), as does derision of the past […]