On Inequality and Freedom (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Eppard, Lawrence M.; Giroux, Henry A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government constraint-being told what they cannot say, which religion they cannot practice, where they cannot move, etc. By this measure, Americans are remarkably free. However, such a conceptualization of freedom is incomplete without including notions of positive freedom--possession of agency, to be able to think and act autonomously in pursuit of one's desired life. Positive freedom unlocks agency through more than the absence of something, but the presence of something else--the conditions which enable people's development of their abilities and access to crucial resources and opportunities. If we measure the freedom of Americans by positive freedom measures, we are falling behind our perceived status. In On Inequality and Freedom, a diverse group of authors discuss how a variety of contemporary American inequalities-from racial, economic, and gender, to health, environmental, and political inequalities-actually limit American freedom, regardless of how much negative freedom we possess. This book provides readers with a deeper understanding of what true freedom is and concrete steps toward restoring it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197583036
• Artikelnr.: 63352886

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Eppard, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University. Henry A. Giroux, PhD, is Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Introduction: Expanding the Meaning of Freedom
* Lawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux
* 2. Freedom has been Weaponized
* Raoul Martinez
* 3. Structural Violence and Structural Awareness
* Bandy Lee
* PART I: COVID-19, Inequality, and Freedom
* 4. Normalizing Inequality in the Age of COVID-19
* Henry Giroux
* 5. A Tale of Two Pandemics: Freedom and Environmental Justice in a
Time of COVID 19
* Michael Mascarenhas
* 6. We Can See Clearly Now: Inequality and the Covid-19 Pandemic
* Michael Yates
* PART II: Poverty, Economic Inequality, and Freedom
* 7. Inequality, Violence, and Freedom
* Martin Daly and D.B. Krupp
* 8. A Structural Vulnerability Understanding of American Poverty
* Mark Rank
* 9. Child Poverty: Europe versus the U.S.
* Jonathan Bradshaw
* 10. Poverty and Freedom
* David Brady
* 11. Poverty, Politics, and Perspective: A View of Political Failure
from Appalachia
* Jim White
* 12. Identity, Meritocracy, and the Unique Challenges of Human Freedom
* Peter Callero
* PART III: Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Freedom
* 13. White Privileges and Black Burdens
* Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey
* 14. The Paradox, Contradictions, Interdependencies, and Stark
Realities of Inequality and Freedom
* Nancy DiTomaso
* 15. Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System at the Intersection
of Race and Ethnicity
* Carlos E. Rojas-Gaona and Arelys Madero-Hernandez
* 16. Let Me Fight Your Battle
* Hilarie Burton Morgan
* 17. Women in the Man-Made City
* Carla Corroto
* 18. Grinding the Gears of Ideology: Interpellation and Gender in Us
Weekly and The Bell Jar
* Luke Ferretter
* 19. The Question of Queer and Trans Positive Freedom in the U.S.
* Ecem E. Ece, Robert Baez, and K. L. Broad
* 20. Truth and Freedom: The Debate over Unauthorized Immigrants and
Crime
* Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester, and Michelangelo Landgrave
* PART IV: Freedom in Other Domains
* 21. Grievance Media: How Two Sets of 'News' Hampers Democracy
* Alison Dagnes
* 22. Social Media and the Collapse of American Public Life
* Yevgeny Simkin
* 23. Disability, Ableism and the Production of Inequality
* Allison Carey
* 24. The Obsolescence of Freedom? Inequality, Symbolic Violence and
the Ongoing Dilemma of American Education
* Dan Schubert and Elizabeth C. Lewis
* 25. Constituting, Empowering, and Stratifying Individuals: Education
as an Institution in Modern World Culture
* David Monaghan
* 26. Environmental Justice: The Struggle Continues
* Robert Cavazos
* PART V: Parting Thoughts
* 27. Social Welfare, Democratic Citizenship, and Freedom
* Deondra Rose
* 28. On Government, Agency, and the Violence of Inaction
* Lawrence Eppard with Noam Chomsky