Against the terror of neoliberalism : politics beyond the age of greed

With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life-from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new'corporate state'distances itself from workers and minority groups, who become more disposable in a new age of uncertainty and manufactured fear. This is the only book to connect the history, ideology, and consequences of neoliberal policies to education and cultural issues that pervade almost every aspect of daily life. A significantly revised and updated new version of Giroux's 2003 book, The Terror of Neoliberalism, this book points to ways in which neoliberal ideology can be resisted, and how new forms of citizenship and collective struggles can be forged, to reclaim the meaning both of a substantive politics and of a democratic society. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism was featured in the New York Times in the Stanley Fish blog: Stanley Fish Blog Neo-liberalism has become the most influential ideology of our times. It guides both Democratic and Republican policies and, increasingly, those of European and developing countries worldwide. Neoliberalism, too commonly regarded an economic theory, is a complex of values, ideologies, and practices that work more broadly as a 'cultural field'.; Giroux argues that its cultural dimensions erode the public participation that is the very foundation of democratic life. Under neoliberal policies, Giroux shows, populations are increasingly denied the symbolic, educational, and economic capital necessary for engaged citizenship. Giroux assesses the impact of neoliberalism on the language of democracy, race, education, and the media, offering alternatives necessary to restore our democratic institutions. [from publisher description] Against the Terror of Neoliberalism Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Slouching Toward Bethlehem 1 The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture Under the Bush/Cheney Administration 2 Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial 3 Disabling the Future: Youth in the Age of Market Fundamentalism 4 Neoliberalism as Public Pedagogy 5 The Politics of Hope in Dangerous Times 6 Against Neoliberal Common Sense: Rethinking Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy in Dark Times Notes Index About the Author