Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control made
Praise for The Violence of Organized Forgetting:"A clarion call to imagine a different Americajust, fair, and caringand then to struggle for it."Bill Moyers"Prophetic and eloquent."
In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the m
"Giroux is society's teacher and conscience."--Lawrence Grossberg, University of North CarolinaThe Toronto Star has named Henry Giroux "one of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think.""America
The second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism examines the American “culture of cruelty” and everyday violence, from school violence to political deceit to mass hys
Giroux (English and cultural studies, McMaster U.) critically analyzes neoliberalism and what he calls the New Authoritarianism, focusing on the dismantling of education in the United States and the a
Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or a
Giroux, the Global TV Network chair at McMaster University, addresses in five short chapters the assault on the social state, unions, higher education, democratic values and the public sphere in gener
Giroux (English and cultural studies, McMaster U., Canada) wrote most of the nine essays collected in this volume during the past decade, but some go back over 30 years, and the fact that they are sti
For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth. Now, this compelling new book offers a comprehensive selection of G
In Against the New Authoritarianism, Giroux divests Bush and America’s thinly disguised rhetoric of being the world’s defender of freedom and democracy to reveal the terrifying specter of proto-fascis
The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and update
Contending that it threatens the very foundation of democracy by deterring public participation, cultural critic Giroux examines neoliberalism both as a cultural politics and a public pedagogy. His wi
At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capi
Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his consider
"Teachers as Intellectuals is a book for all practitioners and all members of the general community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps understand that the po
In this book Henry A. Giroux passionately argues that education and critical pedagogy are needed now more than ever to combat injustices in our society caused by fake news, toxic masculinity, racism,
Educational thinker Henry A. Giroux is the author of several books on American education, including the 2014 title Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education. In this book, he presents a scathing critiqu
Recently, American youth have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services. Youth in Revolt c
Giroux (communications, McMaster U.) takes a hard look at images related to terrorists and terrorism that flood mainstream mass media; and he also evaluates alternate images that come closer to realit
While many of the essays in this book were written before 9/11, they point to a number of important issues such as the commercialization of public life, the stepped up militarization, racial profiling
Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissi
This is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and globally. One of the world’s leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of
Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corp
