ABSTRACT
This presentation essay seeks to situate the proposal of the especial issue Education, Democracy and Difference and to condense, even if briefly, some provocations of the gender, sexuality and race studies to the ontological assumptions of the legal-colonial order of liberal democracy. His general argument points to how a vigorous general economy of thinking about difference requires paying attention to the ethical-political tensions that these intellectual fields bequeathed to the composition between education and democracy. Therefore, in the first part, we go through the effects of what we call political-conceptual echoes of difference and how they feed a policy of imagination to trace existing alternatives in the hegemonic systems. In the second part, we present how the component texts of the special issue state an expansion of politics and highlight the many and multiple ways overflowing and changing in the relationship between education and difference. It is a relationship committed to reverberating as those bodies that were never made to appear in public space generate and regenerate worlds and produce the possibility of imagining democracy in another way.
Keywords:
Democracy; Difference; Gender; Sexuality; Race