The New Henry Giroux Reader

The New Henry Giroux Reader presents Henry Giroux’s evolving body of work. The book articulates a crucial shift in his analyses after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, when his writing took on more expansive articulations of power, politics, and pedagogy that addressed education and culture in forms that could no longer be contained via isolated reviews of media, schooling, or pedagogical practice. Instead, Giroux locates these discourses as a constellation of neoliberal influences on cultural practices, with education as the engine of their reproduction and their cessation. 


The New Henry Giroux Reader also takes up Giroux’s proclivity for using metaphors articulating death as the inevitable effect of neoliberalism and its invasion of cultural policy. Zombies, entropy, and violence permeate his work, coalescing around the central notion that market ideologies are anathema to human life. His early pieces signal an unnatural state of affairs seeping through the fabric of social life, and his work in cultural studies and public pedagogy signals the escalation of this unease across educative spaces. The next sections take up the fallout of 9/11 as an eruption of these horrific practices into all facets of human life, within traditional understandings of education and culture’s broader pedagogical imperatives. The book concludes with Giroux’s writings on education's vitalist capacity, demonstrating an unerring capacity for hope in the face of abject horror.


Acknowledgments

Foreword—Antonia Darder

Prologue: Reflections on Henry Giroux’s Life and Work

Lightning Strikes! —Peter McLaren

Knowing Henry Giroux—Shirley Steinberg

Radicalizing Hope: Public Intellectualism, the Vitalism of Education, and the Promise of Democracy—William Ayers


Introduction: The Work of Henry Giroux: Exposing An American Horror Story—Jake Burdick and Jennifer A. Sandlin


Section I: Social Theory and the Struggle for Pedagogies: Sociology of Education, Critical Pedagogy, and Border Pedagogy

1. Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis

2. Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism


Section II: Culture as Pedagogy: Cultural Studies, Public Pedagogy, and the Politics of Popular Culture

3. Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy

4. Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, and the Loss of Innocence

5. Breaking into the Movies: Pedagogy and the Politics of Film


Section III: Neoliberalism and the Phantasmagoria of the Social: Post-9/11 Politics, the Decline of the Public Sphere, and the Decay of Humanity

6. Neoliberalism and the Disappearance of the Social in Ghost World

7. Education After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno’s Politics of Education

8. The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of Cultural Politics

9. White Nationalism, Armed Culture and State Violence in the Age of Donald Trump


Section IV: No Way Out: The Devouring of Higher Education

10. Vocationalizing Higher Education: Schooling and the Politics of Corporate Culture

11. Youth, Higher Education and the Crisis of Public Time: Educated Hope and the Possibility of a Democratic Future

12. The Militarization of U.S. Higher Education after 9/11


Section V: Radicalizing Hope: Public Intellectualism, The Vitalism of Education, and the Promise of Democracy

13. Democracy, Freedom, and Justice after September 11th: Rethinking the Role of Educators and the Politics of Schooling

14. Cultural Studies, Public Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals

15. Gated Intellectuals and Fortress America: Towards a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement

16. Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics: Bill Moyers Interviews Henry Giroux

17. Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis and the Challenge to Higher Education

18. Gangster Capitalism and Nostalgic Authoritarianism in Trump’s America


Index

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