Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Second Edition
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 cor…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4541-9432-3
- EAN: 9781454194323
- Produktnummer: 24667345
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 205 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 647 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
Über den Autor
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and has a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His primary research areas are in cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. He is on the editorial and advisory boards of many scholarly journals and has published numerous books and articles. His most recent books are America's Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (2013), Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (2014), and The Violence of Organized Forgetting (2014).
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