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(2009) Academies in context: Politics, business and philanthropy and heterarchical governance. Management in Education , 23 (3) pp. 100-103. 10.1177/0892020609105801. Green open access
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Avelar, M; Ball, SJ; (2017) Mapping new philanthropy and the heterarchical state: The Mobilization for the National Learning Standards in Brazil. International Journal of Educational Development 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.09.007. (In press). Green open access
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Ball, S; Collet-Sabé, J; (2022) Against school: an epistemological critique. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education , 43 (6) pp. 985-999. 10.1080/01596306.2021.1947780. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2021) Response: policy? Policy research? How absurd? Critical Studies in Education , 62 (3) pp. 387-393. 10.1080/17508487.2021.1924214. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; Grimaldi, E; (2022) Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom. Learning Media and Technology , 47 (2) pp. 288-302. 10.1080/17439884.2021.1963980. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; Vincent, C; Kemp, S; Pietikainen, S; (2004) Middle class fractions, childcare and the 'relational' and 'normative' aspects of class practices. Sociological Review , 52 (4) pp. 478-502. 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2004.00492.x. Green open access
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Ball, Stephen J; (2023) Education policy network analysis: The state of the art. International Journal of Educational Research , 117 , Article 102096. 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102096. Green open access
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Ball, Stephen J; (2003) The Risks of Social Reproduction: the middle class and education markets. London Review of Education , 1 (3) pp. 163-175. 10.1080/1474846032000146730. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2020) Journal of education policy – 1985–2020. Journal of Education Policy , 35 (1) pp. 1-2. 10.1080/02680939.2019.1681617. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2020) The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair. British Journal of Sociology of Education , 41 (6) pp. 870-880. 10.1080/01425692.2020.1755230. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2019) A horizon of freedom: Using Foucault to think differently about education and learning. Power and Education , 11 (2) pp. 132-144. 10.1177/1757743819838289. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2018) Factories for Learning: Making: Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy Christy Kulz Manchester University Press. 2017. 208 pages. £14.99 paperback. [Review]. Social Forces , 97 (1) , Article e14. 10.1093/sf/soy073. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2017) Laboring to Relate: Neoliberalism, Embodied Policy, and Network Dynamics. Peabody Journal of Education , 92 (1) pp. 29-41. 10.1080/0161956X.2016.1264802. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2016) Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast. Policy Futures in Education , 14 (8) pp. 1046-1059. 10.1177/1478210316664259. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2016) Following policy: networks, network ethnography and education policy mobilities. Journal of Education Policy , 31 (5) pp. 549-566. 10.1080/02680939.2015.1122232. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2015) Accounting for a sociological life: influences and experiences on the road from welfarism to neoliberalism. British Journal of Sociology of Education , 36 (6) pp. 817-831. 10.1080/01425692.2015.1050087. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2008) The legacy of ERA, privatization and the policy ratchet. Educational Management Administration and Leadership , 36 (2) pp. 185-199. 10.1177/1741143207087772. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; Vincent, C; (2005) The 'childcare champion'? New Labour, social justice and the childcare market. British Educational Research Journal , 31 (5) pp. 557-570. 10.1080/01411920500240700. Green open access
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Braun, A; Vincent, C; Ball, SJ; (2008) 'I'm so much more myself now, coming back to work' - Working class mothers, paid work and childcare. Journal of Education Policy , 23 (5) pp. 533-548. 10.1080/02680930802054370. Green open access
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Collet-Sabé, J; Ball, SJ; (2023) Beyond School. The challenge of co-producing and commoning a different episteme for education. Journal of Education Policy , 38 (6) pp. 895-910. 10.1080/02680939.2022.2157890. Green open access
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Collet-Sabé, Jordi; Ball, Stephen J; (2024) Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics. British Journal of Educational Studies , 72 (4) pp. 441-456. 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776. Green open access
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Collet-Sabé, J; Ball, SJ; (2020) Revolting families: The Catalan 'opt out' movement and practices of resistance against Standard Assessment Test (SAT). Some exploratory research. Power and Education , 12 (1) pp. 123-136. 10.1177/1757743819894368. Green open access
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Grimaldi, E; Ball, SJ; (2021) Paradoxes of freedom. An archaeological analysis of educational online platform interfaces. Critical Studies in Education , 62 (1) pp. 114-129. 10.1080/17508487.2020.1861043. Green open access
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Grimaldi, E; Ball, SJ; (2020) The blended learner: digitalisation and regulated freedom-neoliberalism in the classroom. Journal of Education Policy , 36 (3) pp. 393-416. 10.1080/02680939.2019.1704066. Green open access
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Jin, J; Ball, SJ; (2020) Meritocracy, social mobility and a new form of class domination. British Journal of Sociology of Education , 41 (1) pp. 64-79. 10.1080/01425692.2019.1665496. Green open access
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Jin, J; Ball, SJ; (2020) ‘Toned habitus’, self-emancipation and the contingency of reflexivity: a life story study of working-class students at elite universities in China. British Journal of Educational Studies , 68 (2) pp. 241-262. 10.1080/00071005.2019.1644292. Green open access
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Jin, J; Ball, SJ; (2019) Precarious success and the conspiracy of reflexivity: questioning the 'habitus transformation' of working-class students at elite universities. Critical Studies in Education 10.1080/17508487.2019.1593869. (In press). Green open access
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Maguire, M; Braun, A; Ball, S; (2018) Discomforts, opposition and resistance in schools: the perspectives of union representatives. British Journal of Sociology of Education , 38 (7) pp. 1060-1073. 10.1080/01425692.2018.1443431. Green open access
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Maguire, M; Braun, A; Ball, S; (2014) ‘Where you stand depends on where you sit’: the social construction of policy enactments in the (English) secondary school. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education , 36 (4) pp. 485-499. 10.1080/01596306.2014.977022. Green open access
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Perryman, J; Ball, SJ; Braun, A; Maguire, M; (2017) Translating Policy: Governmentality and the Reflective Teacher. Journal of Education Policy , 32 (6) pp. 745-756. 10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072. Green open access
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Perryman, J; Maguire, M; Ball, SJ; Braun, A; (2018) Surveillance, Governmentality and moving the goalposts: The influence of Ofsted on the work of schools in a post-panoptic era. British Journal of Educational Studies , 66 (2) pp. 145-163. 10.1080/00071005.2017.1372560. Green open access
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Peruzzo, Francesca; Ball, Stephen J; Grimaldi, Emiliano; (2022) Peopling the crowded education state: Heterarchical spaces, EdTech markets and new modes of governing during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Educational Research , 114 , Article 102006. 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102006. Green open access
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Thompson, G; Lingard, B; Ball, SJ; (2021) 'Indentured autonomy': headteachers and academisation policy in Northern England. Journal of Educational Administration and History , 53 (3-4) pp. 215-232. 10.1080/00220620.2020.1850433. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Ball, SJ; (2007) 'Making up' the middle-class child: Families, activities and class dispositions. Sociology , 41 (6) pp. 1061-1077. 10.1177/0038038507082315. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Ball, SJ; Kemp, S; (2004) The social geography of childcare: Making up a middle-class child. British Journal of Sociology of Education , 25 (2) pp. 229-244. 10.1080/0142569042000205091. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Ball, SJ; Pietikainen, S; (2004) Metropolitan mothers: Mothers, mothering and paid work. Women's Studies International Forum , 27 (5-6) pp. 571-587. 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.09.011. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Braun, A; Ball, S; (2010) Local links, local knowledge: Choosing care settings and schools. British Educational Research Journal , 36 (2) pp. 279-298. 10.1080/01411920902919240. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Braun, A; Ball, SJ; (2008) Childcare, choice and social class: Caring for young children in the UK. Critical Social Policy , 28 (1) pp. 5-26. 10.1177/0261018307085505. Green open access
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Vincent, C; Rollock, N; Ball, S; Gillborn, D; (2013) Raising Middle-class Black Children: Parenting Priorities, Actions and Strategies. Sociology , 47 (3) pp. 427-442. 10.1177/0038038512454244. Green open access
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Book chapter

Ball, SJ; (2016) Education as the Pedagogy of the Self. In: Foucault as Educator. SpringerBriefs in Education. (pp. 61-88). Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access
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Ball, SJ; (2016) The Impossibility of Education. In: Foucault as Educator. SpringerBriefs in Education. (pp. 1-33). Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland.

Grimaldi, Emiliano; Ball, Stephen J; Peruzzo, Francesca; (2023) Platformization and the enactment of multiple economic forms. The rise of a neoliberal moral economy of education. In: Cobo, C and Rivas, A, (eds.) The New Digital Education Policy Landscape. From Education Systems to Platforms. (pp. 122-146). Routledge: London, UK. Green open access
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Jones, BMA; Ball, SJ; (2022) The neoliberal dispositif: understanding the transformation of the social and ethical space of education. In: International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition. (pp. 60-69). Elsevier

Proceedings paper

Ball, SJ; (2006) The necessity and violence of theory. In: (pp. pp. 3-10). Green open access
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