rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: violence of organized forgetting
    sub title: thinking beyond America's disimagination machine
  name:
    name part: Giroux, Henry A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (274 pages)
  abstract: "In a series of essays on the intersections of political power, popular culture and new methods of social control, Giroux explores how neoliberal discourse and the ongoing commodification of everyday life constitute an active assault on public memory, chip away at civil rights, and diminish the public's capacity to speak and act in its own interests. Alarmed at the increased authoritarianism creeping into all levels of national experience, Giroux looks to flashpoints in current events to reveal how the institutions of government and business are at work to generate false narratives that promote mass fear, quietism and passivity. "The Violence of Organized Forgetting" makes visible the untruth of these narratives and the historical, political, economic, and cultural conditions that produce them. Giroux analyzes how various institutions in American society are distracting and miseducating the public. Political and cultural responses to current event--such as the ongoing economic crisis, income inequality, health care reform, Hurricane Sandy, the war on terror, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Chicago teacher protests--represent flashpoints that reveal a growing disregard for people's democratic rights, public accountability, and civic values. From the inflated rhetoric of the political right to market-driven media peddling spectacles of violence, the influence of these forces in everyday life is undermining our collective security by justifying cutbacks to social supports and restricting opportunities for democratic resistance. Giroux argues that widespread acceptance of the militarized lockdown of Boston crystalizes the degree to which society has come to accept martial law and mass surveillance as inevitable necessities of contemporary American life. Over-the-top repression of social movements like Occupy reveals an increasing intolerance and suspicion of those who challenge state and corporate power, while the violence marketed to youth as entertainment promote…
  table of contents: Introduction : America's descent into madness -- America's disimagination machine -- The new authoritarianism -- Hurricane Sandy and the politics of disposability -- The vanishing point of U.S. democracy -- Lockdown USA : Lessons from the Boston Marathon manhunt -- Teachers resisting neoliberalism at home -- Beyond the disimagination machine -- Hope in a time of permanent war.
  note: Henry A. Giroux.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Corporate power
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Mass media
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social values
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Ideologies
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: Terrorism
  classification: JK1726 .G57 2014eb
  classification: 306.20973
  classification: POL007000 POL032000 POL010000 POL037000
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2014006179
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Open Media book
  identifier: 0872866203
  identifier: 9780872866201
  identifier: 9780872866195
  identifier: 087286619X
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140818
    record change date: 20250816204052.6
    record identifier: in00003528297
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng