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Impure Acts
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95Henry 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. more...
Border Crossings
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 50.95The 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 and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the... more...
America on the Edge
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00Henry Giroux's latest work is a compelling collection of new and classic essays. Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection for Giroux fans and educators alike. more...
Youth in a Suspect Society
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 42.00Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives. more...
On Critical Pedagogy
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 19.95For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral, and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture.... more...
Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 9.95Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable... more...
Disturbing Pleasures
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95In 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 takes place, Giroux illustrates how professors,... more...
Fugitive Cultures
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Fugitive 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 and learning and calls for a reinvigorated... more...
America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth
Monthly Review Press 2013; US$ 75.00Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies... more...
Take Back Higher Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 38.00At the beginning of the new millennium, higher education is under siege from right-wing ideologies and neo-liberalism. In this title, the authors argue that, if higher education is to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it must first confront neo-liberalism, racism and the shredding of the social contract. more...









