If Schools Didn't Exist

Nils Christie (1929–2015) was a Norwegian sociologist. Lucas Cone is a PhD Fellow at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. Joachim Wiewiura is a PhD Fellow in Philosophy at the Center for Information and Bubble Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Lucas Cone is a PhD Fellow at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. Joachim Wiewiura is a PhD Fellow in Philosophy at the Center for Information and Bubble Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Lucas Cone is a Danish education researcher and Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His work examines educational policy, school life, digital technologies, privatization, and the effects of commercial platforms on public education. He holds a PhD from Aarhus University and a master’s degree in Comparative Education and Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Cone co-edited and co-translated If Schools Didn’t Exist: A Study in the Sociology of Schools, a 2020 English edition of Nils Christie’s work, with Joachim Wiewiura. He has also published research on the digitalization and commercialization of education and founded the PRIVATOPIA Research Network on the Privatization of European Education.

Judith Suissa is Professor Emerita of Philosophy of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Her work examines the relationship between political ideas and educational practice, with research interests including anarchist and radical education, parenting culture, parental and children’s rights, academic freedom, and educational alternatives.

She is the author of Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective (2010) and wrote the foreword to If Schools Didn’t Exist, a study by Nils Christie published in English in 2020.