Henry Giroux: 43 books
Disturbing Pleasures
Learning Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
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...
Border Crossings
Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
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...
The Public in Peril
Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
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...
Youth in Revolt
Reclaiming a Democratic Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
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...
Stormy Weather
Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"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...
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
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,...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
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...
University in Chains
Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
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...
The Mouse that Roared
Disney and the End of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
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.
Impure Acts
The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
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.
Fugitive Cultures
Race, Violence, and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution.
Giroux shows...
Politics After Hope
Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
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...