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Peter Mayo is Professor of Sociology of Education and Adult Education and UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the University of Malta, Malta. His research focuses on the sociology of education, adult education, comparative education, social theory, critical theory and cultural studies. He is the author of Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci (Routledge, 2015) and co-author of Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy (Routledge, 2007). He is also the editor of Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of International Critical Pedagogy Reader (Routledge, 2015).
""As one of the leading researchers in critical theory and education, Peter Mayo brings us ever new insights following this tradition and ever new possibilities for change. His new book focuses on Gramsci's confrontation with hegemony and elaborates it further through Paulo Freire's revolutionary educational touch along with Mayo's own search for heterotopian alternatives. The old alternative of ""reform or revolution"" in no longer needed, while Žižek's question on the actuality of a critical matrix turns out to be a rhetorical one. Critical theorists and pedagogues of the world, unite!"" Eva D. Bahovec, Professor of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ""In this well theorized and historically contextualized book, Peter Mayo explores the leading figures in critical education studies and shows how popular and elite culture are thoroughly embedded in wider social relations. His case studies reveal the symbiosis of culture, politics, hegemony, representation and resistance in different periods and countries."" Bob Jessop, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
