Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven education policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public intellectualsas well as all people concer ned about the future of democracyto speak out and defend the university as a site of critical learning and democratic promise.
Table of Content
Introduction: Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy
Chapter 1: Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society
Chapter 2: At the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
Chapter 3: Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals (co-authored with Brad Evans)
Chapter 4: Universities Gone Wild (co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux)
Chapter 5: On the Urgency for Public Intellectuals in the Academy
Chapter 6: Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
About the author
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at Mc Master University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include:
Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories and the Culture of Cruelty and
Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future.
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