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.
Perfect for courses such as: History and Philosophy of Education,
Political and Social Foundations of Education, Policy Issues in American
Education, African American Education, Social Justice Research in
Education, Marginality and the Politics of Resistance, Equity and
Anti-Oppression, Cultural Studies and PublicPedagogy.
