Beschreibung:
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
Through 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.
This book situates young people within 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 and critically engaging the politics that frame their lives.
Giroux is a passionate writer, in this manuscript he challenges our current educational systems to counteract the forms of militarization and commercialism that are rendering our youth as expendable
Expendable Futures: Youth and Democracy at Risk Youth in the Empire of Consumption: Beyond the Pedagogy of Commodification Locked Up: Education and the Youth Crime Complex In the Shadow of the Gilded Age: Biopolitics in the Age of Disposability Locked Out: Youth and Academic Unfreedom