"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers "Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is particularly heartbreaking. If we have a shred of moral fibre left in our beings, Henry Giroux sounds the trumpet to awaken it to action to restore to the nation a civic soul."--Dennis J. Kucinich, former US Congressman and Presidential candidate "Giroux lays out a blistering critique of an America governed by the tenets of a market economy...He cites French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman's concept of the 'disimagination machine' to describe a culture and pedagogical philosophy that short-circuits citizens' ability to think critically, leaving the generation now reaching adulthood unprepared for an 'inhospitable' world. Picking apart the current malaise of 21st-century digital disorder, Giroux describes a world in which citizenship is replaced by consumerism and the functions of engaged governance are explicitly beholden to corporations."--Publishers Weekly In a series of essays that explore the intersections of politics, popular culture, and new forms of social control in American society, Henry A. Giroux explores how state and corporate interests have coalesced to restrict civil rights, privatize what's left of public institutions, and diminish our collective capacity to participate as engaged citizens of a democracy. From the normalization of mass surveillance, lockdown drills, and a state of constant war, to corporate bailouts paired with public austerity programs that further impoverish struggling families and communities, Giroux looks to flashpoints in current events to reveal how the forces of government and business are at work to generate a culture of mass forgetfulness, obedience and conformity. In The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Giroux deconstructs the stories created to control us while championing the indomitable power of education, democracy, and hope. Henry A. Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. The Toronto Star has named Henry Giroux "one of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think." More Praise for Henry A. Giroux's The Violence of Organized Forgetting: "I can think of no book in the last ten years as essential as this. I can think of no other writer who has so clinically dissected the crisis of modern life and so courageously offered a possibility for real material change."--John Steppling, playwright, and author of The Shaper, Dogmouth, and Sea of Cortez "A timely study if there ever was one, The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a milestone in the struggle to repossess the common sense expropriated by the American power elite to be redeployed in its plot to foil the popular resistance against rising social injustice and decay of political democracy."--Zygmunt Bauman, author of Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? among other works Prophetic and eloquent, Giroux gives us, in this hard-hitting and compelling book, the dark scenario of Western crisis where ignorance has become a virtue and wealth and power the means of ruthless abuse of workers, of the minorities and of immigrants. However, he remains optimistic in his affirmation of radical humanity, determined as he is to relate himself to a fair and caring world unblemished by anti-democratic political depravity."--Shelley Walia, Frontline
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Blistering essays critiquing how constant crisis has given rise to a new authoritarianism that threatens democracy, personal liberty and education.
CONTENTS Introduction: Violence in the Age of Organized Forgetting Chapter 1: The New Authoritarianism Chapter 2: America's Disimagination Machine Chapter 3: Climate Change and the Politics of Disposability Chapter 4: The Vanishing Point of Democracy Chapter 5: Stories that Kill Chapter 6: Lockdown, USA: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Manhunt Chapter 7: Resisting Neoliberalism at Home Conclusion Index
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TV & RADIO CAMPAIGN: Research and focus on Canadian media, i.e. CBC TV & Radio, C-SPAN Book TV, Democracy Now!, NPR-Talk of the Nation, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations/shows, Community and NPR affiliate radio stations around the U.S. including New Dimensions, XM: Bob Edwards Show, Tom Joyner TV and Radio Shows, and Tavis Smiley TV and radio. PRINT CAMPAIGN: Toronto Globe & Mail, LA Times, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New Republic, Wall St Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education . . . We'll send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist ONLINE/SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN Giroux regularly writes op-eds for Truthout, Truthdig and Counterpunch. Will send for review/excerpts/opeds, etc. to Shelf Awareness, Salon, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Tomdispatch, Truthout, Truthdig, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, Z-Net and Alternet. Will pursue book salon on popular political blog FireDog Lake. We'll promote it on City Lights' Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia. Active author web site at henrygiroux.com; Facebook: www.facebook.com/henry.a.giroux; Twitter @HenryGiroux ENDORSEMENTS Dennis Kucinich, Angela Davis, Karen Jennings Lewis, Noam Chomsky ACADEMIC MARKETING *Recommended Reading essay for Consortium. *Giroux receives numerous invitations from universities in Canada and the U.S. and we'll report those as they are scheduled. In addition, the Canadian government recently awarded Giroux a significant financial prize ($114,000)to complete his lauded Education and the Crisis of Public Values. The author may be in a position to apply for grants from the Canadian government for travel around the U.S. (City Lights author Hal Niedzviecki, based in Toronto, has been skillful in securing grant money for this kind of work.) *Author belongs to the following associations, which we'll promote the book to: American Educational Studies Association National Education Association Association for Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Association Canadian Association of Cultural Studies National Communication Association Canadian Communication Association Modern Language Association Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives National Education Policy Centre *Author will either attend, or we will promote book at the following conferences: American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies Modern Language Association Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (Canada) First Year Experience *We'll send review copies to the following academic publications familiar already with Giroux's work: Chronicle of Higher Education (he's a regular contributor) College Literature Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Critical Studies in Media Communication Cultural Politics Cultural Studies Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies Fast Capitalism Harvard Educational Review In These Times JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies Logos: Journal of Modern Society and Culture Nonsite Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Policy Futures in Education Qui Parle Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education Situations Social Identities symploke Theory, Culture & Society Third Text Thought & Action TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies Transformations Works and Days
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In Spring 2006 City Lights Publishers—known for our commitment to freedom of expression, renegade literature and radical political views—proudly announced that Greg Ruggiero, founder and editorial director of Open Media Books, joined the ranks of the City Lights editorial team. Since cofounding Open Media in 1991, Ruggiero has published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including Noam Chomsky, Angela Y. Davis, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Ralph Nader, Alice Walker, Manning Marable, Tanya Reinhart, The Dalai Lama, and Subcomandante Marcos. Ruggiero's move to City Lights and the launch of the City Lights Open Media Series marks a new chapter in the publishing of intelligent, inspiring and potentially radicalizing books. Titles in the series include, Targeting Iran by David Barsamian, Interventions by Noam Chomsky, and Heidi Boghosian's new book, Spying on Democracy.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780872866195
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
City Lights Books
Vekt
283 gr
Høyde
177 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

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Biographical note

Henry A. Giroux is a world renowned educator, author and public intellectual. He currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2011); On Critical Pedagogy (Continuum, 2011); Education and the Crisis of Public Values (Peter Lang 2012); Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in an Age of Disposability (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Disposable Youth (Routledge 2012); Youth in Revolt (Paradigm, 2013); America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013) A prolific writer and political commentator, he writes regularly for Truthout and serves on their board of directors. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.