Insurrections

Education in an Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics

Henry A. Giroux (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35082-3 (ISBN)

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With this book Henry A. Giroux argues that insurrection has become a dominant motif for the USA and other countries torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism. He argues that education is central to the idea of insurrection, showing how on the one hand it contributes to an insurrectional authoritarianism, wedded to a fascist legacy that calls for racial purity, militarism, ultra-nationalism, and state terrorism. On the other hand he presents the idea of insurrectional democracy which has a long legacy in the battle for racial justice, economic equality, and a politics of inclusion. The book explores how both positions are motivated by specific visions, values, and particular understandings of education and agency. He also shows how powerful images, social media, and the internet are in merging political education, power, and cultural politics. Giroux makes an impassioned call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politics and produces an anti-capitalist consciousness as the basis for developing a mass movement in defence of a radical democracy.

Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018), On Critical Pedagogy (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021) and Pedagogy of Resistance (2022).

Part I: Politics in the Age of Counter-Revolution
1. Introduction
2. Necropolitics, and the Politics of White Nationalism
3. The Rebranding of Fascist Politics in the Digital Age
4. The Threat of Remembering
5. Counter-Revolutionary Politics
Part II: Social Media and The Fascist Threat
6. Social Media as a Disimagination War Machine
7. Capitalism’s Observation Posts and the Politics of Denial
8. Politics as Civil War and the Culture of Violence
9. Weaponizing Culture
10. Civil Wars and the Politics of Ethicide
Part III: The Public Imagination Under Siege
11. Cultural Apparatuses and the Politics of Commonsense
12. Anti-Capitalist Consciousness and the Crisis of Education
13. Politics Under Siege
14. The Necessity of a Comprehensive Politics
Part IV: Toward an Insurrectional Democracy
15. Hideous Freedoms— Lessons to be Learned from the Convoy Movement
16. Making Education Central to Politics and Everyday Politics
17. Insurrectional Democracy and the Politics of Education
18. Conclusion
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-35082-6 / 1350350826
ISBN-13	978-1-350-35082-3 / 9781350350823
Zustand	Neuware