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Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (PDF eBook)

eBook by Giroux, Henry A.

Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (PDF eBook)

£13.49

ISBN:
9781350553521
Publication Date:
11 Dec 2025
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
eBook
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Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (PDF eBook)

Description

In this book, Henry A. Giroux addresses the attacks on student protesters speaking up against the war on Gaza, and connects this with wider attacks on critical education and democracy. 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. Books are banned, student protesters face police brutality, faculty are purged, history is whitewashed, and faculty are restricted from teaching certain content in the classroom. Throughout 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 Oorganized forgettingO. He 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.

Contents

Introduction 1. Scholasticide: Erasing Memory, Silencing Dissent, and Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West 2. Childcide and Authoritarianism 3. Education, History, and the Scourge of Organized Forgetting 4. Hedge-Fund Driven Universities In A Time Of Crisis 5. Authoritarianism in the Age of Disimagination Machines 6. Firewalls of Ignorance and Disappearance: Corporate Media and Fascist Politics 7. Youth and Stolen Futures: Rethinking the Politics of Memory References Index

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