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In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic alternative to zombie capitalism through a political and pedagogical imperative to address and inform a new cultural vision, mode of individual subjectivity, and understanding of critical agency. As part of a larger effort to build a broad-based social movement, he argues for a new political language capable of placing education at the center of politics. Connecting the language of critique to the discourse of educated hope he calls for the reclaiming of public spaces and institutions where formative cultures can flourish that nourish the radical imagination, and the ongoing search for justice, equality, and the promise of a democracy to come.

Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society¿s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade¿s growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good ¿ one crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society.

Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.

Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.

A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for democracy

Against the backdrop of Obama's 'politics of hope' Giroux critically investigates the well-being and future of America's young people.

President Eisenhower originally included 'academic' in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. This book tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex - and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America.

The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed. This book explores how forms of media challenge the very nature of politics and how they provide alternative public spheres, pluralize political struggles, and expand rather than close down democratic relations.

Examines the relationship between democracy and schooling.

In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular.

Capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, and death in America. This book uses metaphor to suggest symbolic face of power: beginning and ending with an analysis of authoritarianism.

Education and the Crisis of Public Values

Looks at the hope for democratic renewal embodied by Occupy Wall Street and other emerging movements.

Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market;

Compelling account of the decline of 'the social' and rise of atomisation under neo-liberalism, and how we can recreate a vibrant public realm.

Documents cases of child torture by American military personnel, several of which received little coverage in the media.

This study 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.

The concept of 'postmodern counternarratives' are developed as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties.

How are children-and their parents-affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.

Examines how youth is being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially childrens' culture.

Giroux attempts to rewrite the relationship between pedagogy and popular culture by expanding the notion of pedagogy both in terms of meaning and application, and addressing how this works through various cultural forms.

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 inclusive democracy. This book explains how this crisis extends far beyond matters of leadership, governance, or the Bush administration.

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. Giving an introduction to Giroux, this book offers a selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings.

Drawing on new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the author reflects on the limits and possibilities of border crossings in the twenty-first century, and argues that in the post-9/11 world, borders have not been collapsing, but vigorously rebuilt.