Selected Writings

Doctoral Dissertation

Violette, N. (Forthcoming, 2027-28). Maoism, Ideology, and the Carceral State: Toward a Revolutionary Peoples’ Pedagogy (Doctoral Dissertation). York University, Ontario.

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Violette, N. J. (2026). The Prison Question: Maoism, Education, and the Limits of Abolitionism. Socialism and Democracy, 1–24. Find here.

Violette, N. (2026). Education for Whom? Toward a Peoples’ Pedagogy of Liberation. Workers of the World. 1(16). Find here.

Public Scholarship

Violette, N. (2026). My Year of Hysteria and Self-Mutilation. The Vermin, Issue 03. Find here.

Violette, N. (2022). COMMENTARY: “It couldn’t be any more alienating”: contradictions in equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of New Brunswick, NB Media Co-op. Find here.

Masters Thesis

Violette, N. (2020). Neoliberal Developmentalism: Challenging Dominant Educational Narratives of Human and Economic Development (Master’s thesis). University of Toronto, Ontario. Available on Tspace.

Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)

Violette, N. (2019). Other Possible Worlds: Queerness as an intervention into neoliberal success narratives in education. In Trifonas, P (Eds.), The Springer Handbook of Theory and Research in Cultural Studies and Education (pp. 1-13). Springer, Cham.