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Critical Interventions: Politics, Culture, and the Promise of Democracy

19 Series Titles


What's Going On? The Struggle for Contemporary American Identity

What's Going On?: The Struggle for Contemporary American Identity

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Lawrence Grossberg
October 24, 2025

Exploring the backstory of contemporary political polarization, What’s Going On? recognizes that simple stories of blame and uncontested stories of polarization prove themselves to be bad stories that produce bad politics. This book argues that stories have increasingly become matters of affect ...

Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator A Critical Introduction

Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator: A Critical Introduction

1st Edition

By Charles Reitz
February 26, 2025

Demonstrating the continued relevance of Marcuse’s work, Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator details how his teachings remain a countervailing force to the conventional wisdom in intellectual and political matters today. By drawing on Marcuse’s critical analysis of the political economy, a ...

Culture, Power and Education Representation, Interpretation, Contestation

Culture, Power and Education: Representation, Interpretation, Contestation

1st Edition

By Peter Mayo
November 29, 2024

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power. Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how ...

Surveillance Education Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools

Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools

1st Edition

By Nolan Higdon, Allison Butler
August 02, 2024

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognizing that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact. In our era of ...

Horizons of the Future Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education

Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education

1st Edition

By Graham B. Slater
June 14, 2024

Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education examines the relationship between science fiction, education, and social change in the 21st century. Global capitalism is ecologically unsustainable and ethically indefensible; time is running out to alter ...

Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe

Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe

1st Edition

By Ourania Filippakou
August 29, 2022

Building on Ourania Filippakou’s previous work on higher education in the fields of governance, neoliberalism, university entrepreneurialism and marketization, institutional and social stratification, Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe contributes to the debate on ...

Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here

1st Edition

By Anthony DiMaggio
December 31, 2021

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U.S. politics—and how the media and academia failed to spot its earlier rise. Anthony R. DiMaggio spotlights the development of rightwing polarization of the media, Trump’s political ascendance, and the ...

Anxious Creativity When Imagination Fails

Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails

1st Edition

By David Trend
September 11, 2019

Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems ...

Ecology and Revolution Herbert Marcuse and the Challenge of a New World System Today

Ecology and Revolution: Herbert Marcuse and the Challenge of a New World System Today

1st Edition

By Charles Reitz
October 24, 2018

A timely addition to Henry Giroux’s Critical Interventions series, Ecology and Revolution is grounded in the Frankfurt School critical theory of Herbert Marcuse. Its task is to understand the economic architecture of wealth extraction that undergirds today’s intensifying inequalities of class, race...

Learning to Save the Future Rethinking Education and Work in an Era of Digital Capitalism

Learning to Save the Future: Rethinking Education and Work in an Era of Digital Capitalism

1st Edition

By Alexander Means
March 07, 2018

Mainstream economists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs claim that unfettered capitalism and digital technology can unlock a future of unbounded prosperity, create endless high paying jobs, and solve the world’s vast social and ecological problems. Realizing this future of abundance purportedly ...

The Public in Peril Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism

The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism

1st Edition

By Henry A. Giroux
August 10, 2017

This is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and  globally. One of the world’s leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including the rise of ...

Disposable Americans Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income

Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income

1st Edition

By Paul Buchheit
March 22, 2017

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 richest Americans earned enough money from their investments in 2015 to hire two million preschool teachers (while the USA ranks low among developed ...

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