{"product_id":"burning-ambition-elizabeth-cooper-9780299337902","title":"Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya","description":"\u003ci\u003eBurning Ambition \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students' use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why. With insightful ethnographic analysis, she shows that these young students deploy arson as moral punishment for perceived injustices and arson proves an effective tactic in their politics from below. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing from years of research and a rich array of sources, Cooper accounts for how school fires stoke a national conversation about the limited means for ordinary Kenyans, and especially youth, to peacefully influence the governance of their own lives. Further, Cooper argues that Kenyan students' actions challenge the existing complacency with the globalized agenda of \"education for all,\" demonstrating that submissive despondency is not the only possible response to the failed promises of education to transform material and social inequalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299337901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299337902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.71d","brand":"Elizabeth Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056396628223,"sku":"9780299337902","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92fca932-39cd-4f12-b945-7714495fa21a.jpg?v=1685041088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/burning-ambition-elizabeth-cooper-9780299337902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}