Henry A. Giroux

The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

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Produktbeschreibung

Blistering essays critiquing how constant crisis has given rise to a new authoritarianism that threatens democracy, personal liberty and education.

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Produktdetails

• City Lights Open Media
• Verlag: City Lights
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780872866195
• ISBN-10: 087286619X
• Artikelnr.: 39560664

Autorenporträt

Henry A. Giroux is a world renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2011); On Critical Pedagogy (Continuum, 2011); Education and the Crisis of Public Values (Peter Lang 2012); Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in an Age of Disposability (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Disposable Youth (Routledge 2012); Youth in Revolt (Paradigm, 2013); America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013) A prolific writer and political commentator, he writes regularly for Truthout and serves on their board of directors. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction: Violence in the Age of Organized Forgetting
Chapter 1: The New Authoritarianism
Chapter 2: America's Disimagination Machine
Chapter 3: Climate Change and the Politics of Disposability
Chapter 4: The Vanishing Point of Democracy
Chapter 5: Stories that Kill
Chapter 6: Lockdown, USA: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Manhunt
Chapter 7: Resisting Neoliberalism at Home
Conclusion
Index