Edited by Peters (education, U. of Waikato, New Zealand) and de Alba (Institute of Research about University and Education, National Autonomous U. of Mexico), this book presents an international range of interrogations of the question of contemporary subjectivity that approach the question from a variety of (generally post-modern) theoretical backgrounds. Eleven chapters address such topics as the Bakhtinian and Derridean consideration of the subject in the margins, "psychologizing adolescence" and "sociologizing youth" as two paradigms of the subjectivity of youth culture, collective biography as a methodology for investigating becoming selves across borders and with/in landscapes, Laclau's theoretical work as applied to the notion of subject and subjectivity, the interrelation between culture and subject and its pedagogical consequences as informed by the philosophical perspective of Hönigswald, and diasporic philosophy and counter-education as a possbility/impossibility for a new critical language in education. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)