Disappearing futures education against the politics of disposability Henry A. Giroux

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Henry A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Political aspects--United States.

Education.

Critical pedagogy.

Education--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"This book is a series of dispatches written from the front lines of a nation teetering on the abyss of self-destruction.Written with the belief that language still matters, that critical pedagogy can still give a sense of urgency to moral witnessing, that culture is still a battlefield worth fighting for, Giroux tackles the unfolding nightmare of Trump’s second presidency - a regime unshackled from even the pretense of democratic norms. He details a full-fledged fascist politics that traffics in erasure: of history, of the public good, of dissent, of bodies rendered disposable. From ICE agents disappearing students on US campus, to the attacks on USAID, to the war in Gaza, Giroux traces both the machinery of authoritarianism and the pedagogical, cultural, and civic terrains where resistance still lives. He celebrates the fire of refusal, burning in the eyes of students who resist, and faculty who speak out, immigrants who organize, people in the streets protesting, and youth who refuse to inherit a world built on lies. These are dispatches from a nation unraveling, but also from the front lines of struggle, solidarity, and radical imagination"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Introduction : The fire this time : confronting America’s authoritarian turn

The politics of cruelty : when the social fabric unravels

Abducting bodies : state violence and the architecture of domination

Trump’s America : ghosts of the past, shadows of the future

Erasing history, erasing democracy

When memory dies, the future disappears

Cleansing the body politic : forgetting, violence, and the struggle for democracy

Culture as a pedagogical battlefield in the fight against tyranny

The spectacle of terror : living in the warfare state

Resisting the poisonous language of fascism

Every child is our child : Gaza, Lidice, and the collapse of global conscience

Tears of blood : eugenics, disposability, and the war on children

Conclusion : Saving education, saving democracy : toward a politics of liberation

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed August 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Giroux, Henry A. Disappearing futures

ISBN:

9781350603042

135060304X

9781350603059

1350603058

9781350603066

1350603066

OCLC:

1597389299

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license