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  • NEOLIBERALISM'S WAR ON HIGHER EDUCATION
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    NEOLIBERALISM'S WAR ON HIGHER EDUCATION
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    An accessible examination of neoliberalism and its effects on higher education and America, by the author of American Nightmare. Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people. Giroux e...

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  • TERROR OF NEOLIBERALISM
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    TERROR OF NEOLIBERALISM
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    This book argues that neoliberalism is not simply an economic theory but also a set of values, ideologies, and practices that works more like a cultural field that is not only refiguring political and economic power, but eliminating the very categories of the social and political as essential elements of democratic life. Neoliberalism has become the most dangerous ideology of o...

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  • TWILIGHT OF THE SOCIAL
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    TWILIGHT OF THE SOCIAL
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    In The Twilight of the Social, Henry A. Giroux looks at the decline of social spaces which enable grievances to be dealt with and considers new ways in which citizens can create social spaces today. After decades of neoliberalism, today's young people lack a voice and are saddled with economic, political, and social conditions that have rendered them marginalised and ultimately...

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  • POLITICS AFTER HOPE
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    POLITICS AFTER HOPE
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where Obama grounded his own sense of possibility, Giroux critically investigates the...

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  • SCHOOLING AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PUBLIC LIFE
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    SCHOOLING AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PUBLIC LIFE
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens. Not only is the legacy of democracy addressed through the work of John Dewey and others, but the democratic possibilities of schooling are analyzed through a...

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  • POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY
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    POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY
    GARY A. OLSON / LYNN WORSHAM / HENRY A. GIROUX
    In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals. Poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler discusses the pain of rigorous intellectual work, saying that it is necessarily extremely hard labor, as she examines the intersection of discourse and political action. Award-winning fi...

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  • PAULO FREIRE AND THE CURRICULUM
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    PAULO FREIRE AND THE CURRICULUM
    GEORGIOS GROLLIOS / HENRY A. GIROUX / PANAYOTA GOUNARI / DONALDO MACEDO
    How can Paulo Freire s progressive and vital contributions to curriculum planning can be made more relevant today for educators, policy makers and anybody involved in education? This book provides a necessary framework as it articulates significant questions. The first deals with Freire s positions on curriculum planning, the second is devoted to the historical development and ...

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  • DANGEROUS THINKING IN THE AGE OF THE NEW AUTHORITARIANISM
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    DANGEROUS THINKING IN THE AGE OF THE NEW AUTHORITARIANISM
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from language and memory to youth and higher education, Gi...

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  • NEOLIBERALISM, EDUCATION, AND TERRORISM
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    NEOLIBERALISM, EDUCATION, AND TERRORISM
    JEFFREY R. DI LEO / HENRY A. GIROUX / SOPHIA A MCCLENNEN / KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues is a collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals who deeply care about the future of education in America and who are concerned about the dangerous effects of neoliberalism on American society and culture. It aims to provide a clear, concise, and thought-provoking account of the problems facing edu...

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  • UNIVERSITY IN CHAINS
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    UNIVERSITY IN CHAINS
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    President Eisenhower originally included 'academic' in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex - and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America. Giroux details the sweeping post-9/11 assault being waged on the academy by militarization, corporat...

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  • EDUCATION AND CULTURAL STUDIES
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    EDUCATION AND CULTURAL STUDIES
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their work overlap. Education and Cultural Studies brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and ed...

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  • DISPOSABLE YOUTH: RACIALIZED MEMORIES, AND THE CULTURE OF CRUELTY
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    DISPOSABLE YOUTH: RACIALIZED MEMORIES, AND THE CULTURE OF CRUELTY
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current condi...

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  • BORDER CROSSINGS
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    BORDER CROSSINGS
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the times which we currently live,...

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  • EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE
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    EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE
    STANLEY ARONOWITZ / HENRY A. GIROUX
    Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries. ...

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  • IMPURE ACTS
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    IMPURE ACTS
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire. ...

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  • FUGITIVE CULTURES
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    FUGITIVE CULTURES
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its political and pedagogical value as a site of critique and learning and calls for a reinvigorated critical relationship between cultura...

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  • COUNTERNARRATIVES
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    COUNTERNARRATIVES
    HENRY A. GIROUX / COLIN LANKSHEAR / PETER MCLAREN / MICHAEL PETERS
    To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education withi...

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  • BETWEEN BORDERS
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    BETWEEN BORDERS
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    Informed by the belief that critical pedagogy must move beyond the classroom if it is to be truly effective, this essay collection makes clear how cultural practices--as portrayed in film, sports, and in the classroom itself--enable cultural studies to deepen its own political possibilities and to construct diverse geographies of identity, representation and place. Contributors...

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  • THE PUBLIC IN PERIL
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    THE PUBLIC IN PERIL
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including the rise of right-wing populism, the threat of planetary peril, anti-intellectual fervor, the w...

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  • YOUTH IN REVOLT
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    YOUTH IN REVOLT
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    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 chronicles the escalating backlash against dissent and peaceful protest while exposing a lack of governmental concern for society's most vulnerable populations. Henry Giroux careful...

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  • HEARTS OF DARKNESS
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    HEARTS OF DARKNESS
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    George W. Bush's war on terror defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty. As torture became normalized in the Bush era, it not only corrupted American ideals and political culture, it also passed over to the dark side in sanctioning the unimaginable and unspeakable: the torture of children. This shocking book documents ...

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  • STORMY WEATHER
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    STORMY WEATHER
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    "By far the single most important account and analysis of the Katrina catastrophe." David L. Clark, McMaster University In his newest provocative book, prominent social critic Henry A. Giroux shows how the tragedy and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina signals a much larger crisis in the United States-one that threatens the very nature of individual freedom and inc...

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  • BEYOND THE SPECTACLE OF TERRORISM
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    BEYOND THE SPECTACLE OF TERRORISM
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    Henry Giroux's essay awakens us to the ways new media proliferate and circulate images and ideas of terror that order our lives, pervert our pedagogy, delimit our democracy. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to comprehend our times, our politics, our possibilities. --David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine Henry Giroux is one of the sharpest cultural critic...

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  • AGAINST THE TERROR OF NEOLIBERALISM
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    AGAINST THE TERROR OF NEOLIBERALISM
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life-from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new "corporate state" distances itself from workers and minority groups, who b...

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  • GIROUX READER
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    GIROUX READER
    HENRY A. GIROUX / CHRISTOPHER G. ROBBINS
    One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A. Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. This new book offers a carefully selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings, which bridge the theoretical and practical, integrate multiple acad...

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  • DISTURBING PLEASURES
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    DISTURBING PLEASURES
    HENRY A. GIROUX
    In Disturbing Pleasures Henry Giroux demonstrates how his well-known theories of education, critical pedagogy and popular culture can be put to use in the classroom and in other cultural settings. Adding an entirely new dimension to his thinking about the cultural sites at which pedagogical practice takes place, Giroux illustrates how professors, school teachers and other cultu...

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