Essay Reviews Rethinking the Curricular Imagination: Curriculum and Biopolitics in the Age of Neoliberalism Giroux, H. (2009). Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Lewis, T. (2008). Defining the Political Ontology of the Classroom: Toward a Multitudinous Education. Teaching Education 19(4), 249–260. Lewis, T. (2009). Biopower, Play, and Experience in Education. In D. Kellner, T. Lewis, C. Pierce, & K. D. Cho (Eds.), Marcuse’s Challenge to Education (pp. 45–57). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Lewis, T. (2009). Understanding the Logic of Educational Encampment: From Illich to Agamben. The International Journal of Illich Studies 1(1), 28–36. Reviewed by: GREGORY N. BOURASSA University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA INTRODUCTION: CURRICULUM INQUIRY IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM One of the more difficult and pressing challenges confronting curriculum inquiry today relates to the increasing enclosure and privatization of the public sphere. Public schools, often exalted and thought to be among the most resilient spaces of the common, are now incredibly fragile, on the brink of being fully besieged by the onslaught of neoliberalism (De Lissovoy, 2008; Saltman, 2007). While this practice of enclosure is not necessarily new, as market forces have long been encroaching the spaces of public schooling (Du Bois, 1918; Dewey, 1930), the emergence of neoliberalism in the last thirty years marks a particularly insidious turn. The novelty of neoliberalism resides not only in that it has become normalized and even celebrated, but also in that the far-reaching tentacles of neoliberalism assume pedagogical dimensions. 1 At the same time, the unapologetic posturing of neoliberalism (Giroux, 2009) offers curriculum theorists the contours of a common target that has not always been so easily recognizable in © 2011 by The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Curriculum Inquiry 41:1 (2011) Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, and 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK doi: 10.1111/j.1467-873X.2010.00528.x