School Uniforms: New Materialist Perspectives

This  edited volume brings together a new materialist approach to  understanding the various legacies and controls being exercised through  school uniforms. Through examining school uniform policies, the editors  and their authors highlight the embodied choices that contribute to a  socio-materialist understanding of democracy and social justice. Uniform  policy plays a distinct role in setting the culture of compulsory  school education and as such it constitutes a set of under-theorised  school practices. This work thus brings together critical perspectives  from education, sociology, cultural and postcolonial studies within an  overarching analysis of how uniform imposes performances that have a  formative effect on young people’s identities and economic  positionality.