One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A. Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. This new book offers a carefully selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings, which bridge the theoretical and practical, integrate multiple academic disciplines, and fuse scholarly rigor with social relevance. The essays underscore the continuities and transformations in Giroux's thought, just as they offer invaluable approaches to understanding a range of social problems. Giroux's work suggests that a more humane and democratic world is possible and provides critical tools that can assist concerned citizens in bringing it into being.
Part I Sociology of Education; Chapter 1 Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education; Chapter 2 Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism; Part II Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics; Chapter 3 Consuming Social Change; Chapter 4 Doing Cultural Studies; Part III The War against Youth; Chapter 5 Nymphet Fantasies; Chapter 6 Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization; Part IV From Critical Pedagogy to Public Pedagogy; Chapter 7 Is There a Role for Critical Pedagogy in Language/Cultural Studies?, Manuela Guilherme; Chapter 8 Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals; Chapter 9 Mouse Power; Part V The Politics of Higher Education; Chapter 10 Racial Politics, Pedagogy, and the Crisis of Representation in Academic Multiculturalism; Chapter 11 Youth, Higher Education, and the Crisis of Public Time; Part VI Public Intellectuals and Their Work; Chapter 12 Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism; Chapter 13 The Promise of Democracy and Edward Said's Politics of Worldliness;
