The book is packed with theory of Foucauldian 'governmentality' and power/knowledge discourse, Derridian deconstruction, critical political sociology of education embedded in Freire and Giroux concepts. Authors of individual chapters will represent scholars involved with cultural and academic context and come from diverse backgrounds across the globe. The book includes both theoretical and empirical findings that tend to produce an exhaustive monograph of perceived/hidden symbolic violence in educational context, considered as a space of social inclusion/exclusion and an ongoing power struggle. The book uses the critical lens of post-colonial theories and analyses endo-exo symbolic exchanges between cultures and other entities, heavily focused on the western influences.

This edited volume brings together the works of scholars from different disciplines including political sociology, political science, educational studies and anthropology, and analyses how global social and educational institutions are entrapped by colonialisation, globalization, entangled in power relations and conflicting ideologies.