Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines social agency and the construction space in academic environments.

Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines how social agents construct autonomous spaces in the context of neoliberal education. The contributors to this edited collection consider the ways that educators, students, and families assert agency, claim space, and thereby reshape the constraints imposed by the durability of the academic institutions of which they are a part.

Introduction: Taking Up Space in Anthropology and Education

Chapter 1: "I Am Their Teacher": How a Latina Paraeducator ‘Remakes the Rules’ of School by Being There

Chapter 2: Teacher Identity in Heritage Language Spaces: Explorations of Embodied Sociospatial Understandings in Teacher-Student Relationships

Chapter 3: I’m Here Anyway: School Choice in Indian Country

Chapter 4: Enacting Identity in the Constrained Academic Space of a Boarding School for Indigenous Students

Chapter 5: A Collaborative Exploration of Power, Access, and Resource Distribution in Higher Education

Chapter 6: I wanna Get Out of Here and Never Come Back’: Lines of Flight in a Remedial Reading Classroom

Chapter 7: The Impact of Community within Teacher Professional Development Webinars