{"title":"Henry A. Giroux","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry A. Giroux\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive explorations of power, culture, and education through a critical lens. His works challenge readers to confront the political and social forces shaping contemporary society, from rising authoritarianism to the struggles of democracy in crisis. Engaging with themes of memory, resistance, and conscience, Giroux’s books provide profound insights into the complexities of modern politics and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the realm of education, Giroux is a leading voice on critical pedagogy, advocating for teachers as intellectuals and education as a site of struggle and transformation. 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He details the ongoing scholasticide taking place in Palestine, the systematic attacks by the Israeli military on schools, teachers, and museums, and argues that they represent the extreme endpoint of a broader, insidious campaign aimed at crushing dissent across universities in the United States, Europe, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBooks are banned, student protesters face police brutality, faculty are purged, history is whitewashed, and faculty are restricted from teaching certain content in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, he draws links between authoritarianism and education, the war on youth, the politics of higher education, the politics of mass media, as well as what he has termed “organized forgetting”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe closes the book by arguing that we live in an era where historical amnesia has been weaponized, where many young people are denied the histories that allow them to narrate their own experiences and assert modes of self-reflection they can claim as their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383559012588,"sku":"9781350553491","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3124bf842445919318479f1297926dcf.jpg?v=1773438075"},{"product_id":"pedagogy-of-resistance-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350269507","title":"Pedagogy of Resistance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry A. 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He argues that underlying the current climate of inequity, isolation, and social atomization (all exacerbated by the pandemic) is a crisis of education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of this comes the need for a \u003cem\u003epedagogy of resistance\u003c\/em\u003e that is accessible to everyone, built around a vision of hope for an alternative society rooted in the ideals of justice, equality, and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426978382060,"sku":"9781350269507","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350269507.jpg?v=1774767749"},{"product_id":"on-critical-pedagogy-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350144972","title":"On Critical Pedagogy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. 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Giroux analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe argues against the tendency by both right wing and neo-liberal interests to reduce schooling to training, and students merely to customers. He points to the increasing attack on public and higher education by right-wing populists and the Trump administration in an age of growing authoritarianism. Giroux also considers the legacy of Freire and issues a fundamental challenge to educators, public intellectuals, and others who believe in the promise of radical democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431771422956,"sku":"9781350144972","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350144972.jpg?v=1774557209"},{"product_id":"teachers-as-intellectuals-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350458598","title":"Teachers as Intellectuals","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in 1988, \u003cem\u003eTeachers as Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e encourages us to see schools as democratic spaces in which teachers and students work together to transform society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiroux incorporates the most valuable insights of critical pedagogy into a more comprehensive and practical theory of schooling, committed to educating students in the language of critique and possibility. At the heart of his vision for schooling is the ability of the teacher to act as a transformative intellectual and to use critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes an introduction by Paulo Freire, a foreword by Peter McLaren and a new introduction from the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455746556140,"sku":"9781350458598","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71Hcl2FxkAL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774795815"},{"product_id":"theory-and-resistance-in-education-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350458482","title":"Theory and Resistance in Education","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheory and Resistance in Education\u003c\/em\u003e by Henry A. Giroux is reissued with a new introduction from the author. This classic work provides theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analysed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe time for radical social change has never been so urgent, since the fate of an entire generation of young people, if not democracy itself, is at stake. Giroux argues that challenge gives new meaning to the importance of resistance, the relevance of pedagogy, and the significance of political agency. In a time of growing fascism, Giroux underscores that resistance is not an option but a necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes a foreword by Paulo Freire and a preface by Stanley Aronowitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455799967980,"sku":"9781350458482","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71LxCdmAClL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774799186"},{"product_id":"the-burden-of-conscience-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350506893","title":"The Burden of Conscience","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Burden of Conscience\u003c\/em\u003e, Giroux confronts the insidious rise of fascism infiltrating today’s politics and education, alongside the suffocating silence that paralyzes our will to resist and speak truth to power.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nHe decries the moral apathy in the face of the slaughter of children in Israel and the mass killing in Gaza, positioning this silence as part of a broader, ominous affliction of our age—the fusion of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism.\n\nHe calls for a groundswell of resistance, urging a movement to reclaim education as a public good, where critical education becomes an expression of freedom, a crucible of literacy, liberation, and collective empowerment.\n\nDrawing on his own childhood, he intertwines the personal with the political, unearthing the complexities of class, whiteness, and race, showing that individual and collective actions must converge to dismantle oppressive systems.\n\nFinally, he argues that education is a powerful tool, giving us, in the words of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘the power to think the absent.’ Only through this awakening can a critical public consciousness emerge, sparking a multiracial working-class movement capable of challenging entrenched systems of oppression and bringing about true social transformation and radical democracy.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461473157356,"sku":"9781350506893","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350506893-the-burden-of-conscience.jpg?v=1774969784"},{"product_id":"insurrections-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350350816","title":"Insurrections","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this book, Henry A. 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He also shows how powerful images, social media, and the internet are in merging political education, power, and cultural politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiroux makes an impassioned call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politics and produces an anti-capitalist consciousness as the basis for developing a mass movement in defence of a radical democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470868168940,"sku":"9781350350816","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350350816-insurrections.jpg?v=1775229565"},{"product_id":"fascism-on-trial-by-anthony-r-dimaggio-9781350421684","title":"Fascism on Trial","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascism on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates rising fascism in America. It spotlights the major facets of fascism that increasingly characterise contemporary US politics, in relation to political authoritarianism, the rise of anti-intellectualism, the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, the glorification of political street violence and state violence, rising white supremacy, and the militarisation of US political discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside this, Giroux and DiMaggio show how the assault on critical education and pedagogy is central to the fascist programme. They stress the importance of reprioritising education as a public good to combat fascist politics and ideology and draw links between fascism and the banning of books in schools, whitewashing history, and punishing policies aimed at Black, Brown, and transgender youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey challenge the commonly embraced notion that Trumpism is primarily a function of economic insecurity within his support base, documenting how support for the former president primarily centred on reactionary socio-cultural values and white supremacy. They also show how white supremacist values are central to the Trump base defending the January 6th insurrection, despite academics, journalists, and political officials in both major parties ignoring the threat of rising white nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596381307116,"sku":"9781350421684","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350421684-fascism-on-trial.jpg?v=1777923228"},{"product_id":"race-politics-and-pandemic-pedagogy-by-henry-a-giroux-9781350184435","title":"Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Henry A. 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The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Henry A. Giroux offers a powerful, far-reaching critique of the economic interests, cultural dimensions, and political dynamics involved in the nation's shift toward increasingly abusive forms of power. His analysis helps us to frame critical questions about what can and should be done to turn things around while we can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReflecting on a wide range of social issues, Giroux contrasts Donald Trump's America with Sandra Bland's to understand who really benefits from politically fueled intolerance for immigrants, communities of colour, Muslims, low-income families, and those who challenge state and corporate power. A passionate advocate for civil rights and the importance of the imagination, Giroux argues that only through widespread social investment in democracy and education can the common good hope to prevail over the increasingly concentrated influence of extreme right-wing politicians and self-serving economic interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAmerica at War with Itself\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is the book Americans need to read now. No one is better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the truly dangerous threats to our society. He punctures our delusions and offers us a compelling and enlightened vision of a better way. \u003ci\u003eAmerica at War with Itself\u003c\/i\u003e is the best book of the year.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBob Herbert\u003c\/strong\u003e, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former Op-Ed columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this current era of corporate media misdirection and misinformation, \u003ci\u003eAmerica at War with Itself\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all Americans, especially young people. Henry Giroux is one of the few great political voices of today, with powerful insight into the truth. Dr. Giroux is defiantly explaining, against the grain, what's REALLY going on right now, and doing so quite undeniably. Simply put, the ideas he brings forth are a beacon that need to be seen and heard and understood in order for the world to progress.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJulian Casablancas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAmerica at War with Itself\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Giroux again proves himself one of North America's most clear-sighted radical philosophers of education, culture and politics: radical because he discards the chaff of liberal critique and cuts to the root of the ills that are withering democracy. Giroux also connects the dots of reckless greed, corporate impunity, poverty, mass incarceration, racism and the co-opting of education to crush critical thinking and promote a culture that denigrates and even criminalises civil society and the public good. His latest work is the antidote to an alarming tide of toxic authoritarianism that threatens to engulf America. The book could not be more timely.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerica at War with Itself\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case for real ideological and structural change at a time when the need and stakes could not be greater. Everyone who cares about the survival and revival of democracy needs to read this book.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKenneth Saltman\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Failure of Corporate School Reform\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry A. Giroux\u003c\/strong\u003e's most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Organised Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Addiction to Terrorism\u003c\/i\u003e. 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