H A Giroux
Biographic Data
| ID | 9256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A Giroux |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A |
| FAMILY NAME | Giroux |
| SIGNATURE | GIROUX H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1637-9142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 202 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 828 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 202 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Never again in the age of historical amnesia
“Never again” is not a slogan. It is a moral injunction, a demand that history remain alive as warning, indictment, and possibility (Henry, 2026a). Today, that demand is under siege, not only throu...
Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Dark Times
Howard Zinn
The Right-Wing’s Dirty War Against History and Education
The past haunts the present moment because it increasingly offers terrifying narratives and images of what Walter Benjamin once called “a catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin.”1 The catastrophe to which Benjamin refers is the ghost of fascism and its irrepressible ability to reappear in different forms at certain moments in history. At the present time, memory and catastrophe have merged as past images that flash before us, signaling dang…
Blood in their Mouths
Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class
Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism
This article explores neoliberal fascism as a distinctive political formation within the current historical moment. In doing so, it first analyzes neoliberalism as a project that has since the 1970s destroyed all the commanding institutions of democracy while consolidating power in the hands of a financial elite. In addition, it analyzes neoliberalism as a movement, that produces and legitimates massive economic inequality and suffering, privatiz…
The Iranian Uprisings and the Challenge of the the New Media
Beyond Dystopian Education in a Neoliberal Society
The Plague of White Supremacy in the Age of Fascist Politics
The toxic thrust of white supremacy runs through American culture like an electric current. Without apology,Jim Crow is back suffocating American society in a wave of voter suppression laws, ongoing attempts by rightwing politicians to implement a form of apartheid pedagogy, and the resurgence of a right-wing cultural politics organized around the legacy of white nationalism and white supremacy. The emergence of white supremacy to the centers of …
Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class
Occupy Wall Street’s Battle against American-Style Authoritarianism
Cultural Studies in Dark Times
Stephen Miller and the cultural politics of fascist subjectivity
Maga aesthetics, cultural politics and the making of the fascist subject
Attaques contre les chercheurs et guerre à l’éducation
Dans cette chronique qui cherche à comprendre les conséquences des nouveaux populismes pour la recherche et l’éducation, Henry A. Giroux brosse un tableau pour le moins sombre des changements qui ont cours depuis la deuxième investiture de Donald Trump aux États-Unis. Il s’inquiète du projet autoritaire qui est en train de se mettre en place en instrumentalisant notamment l’enseignement supérieur et le domaine de l’éducation en général. Au-delà d…
Education, fascism, memory, and the crisis of democracy in the 21st Century
This article examines the intersection of memory, militarism, and the rise of fascism in the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. It explores how the post-9/11 era, initially marked by national unity and solidarity, quickly devolved into militarism, xenophobia, and the erosion of civil liberties. The manipulation of collective memory and a regressive form of education have played a central role in the rise of far-right authoritarianism, with f…
Paulo Freire’s legacy and critical pedagogy in dark times
This article explores the enduring relevance of Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy at a historical moment marked by rising authoritarianism and attacks on education as a critical and democratizing project. Freire’s philosophy, grounded in the belief that education is inherently political, emphasizes the role of theory, critical consciousness, and pedagogy as the practice of freedom in fostering a just and democratic society. Central to his vision i…
The Politics of Disappearance
Scholasticide
This paper exposes the multifaceted brutality of Israel’s relentless war on Gaza, emphasizing not only the military violence but also the calculated structural, ideological, and political assault on dissent and education. It demonstrates how Israel's actions — indiscriminate bombings of civilians, including women and children, schools, and cultural institutions — are not merely condemned as war crimes but as acts of genocide by international bodi…
Fascism on trial
Educational PhilosoPhy
Prologue
Introduction
Resisting far right and neoliberal agendas in education
Since the 1980s the discourses of neoliberalism and authoritarianism have merged, cre- ating the echoes of a fascist past that has moved from the margins to the center global politics. Education as a mode of domination has become central to politics and operates not only through various levels of schooling but also through a range of cultural apparatuses, including the social media and mainstream platforms. In the current moment, neoliberal fasci…
Educators as public intellectuals and the challenge of fascism
The Terror of Neoliberalism
This book argues that neoliberalism is not simply an economic theory but also a set of values, ideologies, and practices that works more like a cultural field that is not only refiguring political and economic power, but eliminating the very categories of the social and political as essential elements of democratic life. Neoliberalism has become the most dangerous ideology of our time. Collapsing the link between corporate power and the state, ne…
Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance
(2003). Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance: Notes on a critical theory of educational struggle. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 5-16
War on terror
The process of militarisation has a long history in the United States and is varied rather than static, changing under different historical conditions. Catherine Lutz defines it as ‘an intensificat
Cultural studies, public pedagogy, and the responsibility of intellectuals
Cultural studies seems to have passed into the shadows of academic interests, replaced by globalization and political economy as the new millennium's privileged concerns among left academics. Yet, cultural studies' longstanding interest in the interrelationship of power, politics, and culture remains critically important. Matters of agency, consciousness, pedagogy, and rhetoric are central to any public discourse about politics, not to mention ed…
Social Education in the Classroom
This paper reviews recent studies on the relationship of classroom life to larger social/political institutions. It analyzes the phenomenon which Philip Jackson has identified as the “hidden curriculum”, that covert pattern of socialization which prepares students to function in the existing workplace and in other social/political spheres. The authors argue that this pattern has been largely ignored by social studies curriculum developers. By ign…
Cultural Studies and the Politics of Public Pedagogy
Racial injustice and disposable youth in the age of zero tolerance
The author argues that economically, politically, and culturally the situation of youth in the U.S. is intolerable and unforgivable. Childhood has been demeaned by popular news media and no longer is regarded by society as the future of democracy. Rather, young people are increasingly isolated, treated with suspicion, and subjected to diminished rights of privacy and personal liberties. Zero-tolerance policies in communities and schools amount to…
The Militarization of US Higher Education after 9/11
Subject to severe financial constraints while operating within a regime of moral panics driven by the 'war on terrorism', higher education in the United States faces both a legitimation crisis and a political crisis. With its increasing reliance on Pentagon and corporate interests, the academy has largely opened its doors to serving private and governmental interests and in doing so has compromised its role as a democratic public sphere. This art…
Post-Colonial Ruptures and Democratic Possibilities
W ithin the last decade, conservatives such as Allan Bloom, Lynne Cheney, Diane Ravitch, Pat Buchanan, and Senator Jesse Helms have placed the issue of culture and difference at the center of the debate about education and democracy. They have asserted the primacy of the political in invoking the language of culture and in doing so have let it be known that culture is a terrain of political and ideological struggle. The ideological and political …
Selfie Culture in the Age of Corporate and State Surveillance
This article addresses the implications for the growing use of selfies and the culture it is producing under a regime of neoliberalism marked by an unchecked celebration of the self, commodification, and privatisation. The author argues that the selfie is not just another fad deeply enmeshed in popular culture. On the contrary, selfies are less about entertainment and vanity then they are symptomatic of a retreat from privacy rights, an intense s…
Violence, Katrina, and the Biopolitics of Disposability
Hurricane Katrina may have reversed the self-imposed silence about the racialized policies of the neo-liberal state in the US - in revealing a vulnerable and destitute segment of the nation's citizenry that conservative politics, at least since Reagan. has demonized. However, in order to fully understand this calamity it is important to understand how the confluence of race and politics in the US is the expression of a new and insidious set of bi…
White nationalism, armed culture and state violence in the age of Donald Trump
With the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, the discourse of an authoritarianism and the echoes of a fascist past have moved from the margins to the center of American politics. A culture of war buttressed by the forces of white supremacy and militarization has been unleashed in a series of policies designed to return the United States to a history in which the public sphere was largely white and Christian, and the e…
Language, difference, and curriculum theory
Accessibility, which is a process, is often taken for a natural, self-evident state of language. What is perpetuated in its name is a given form of intolerance and an unacknowledged practice of exclusion. Thus, as long as the complexity and difficulty of engaging with the diversely hybrid experiences of heterogeneous contemporary societies are denied and not dealt with, binary thinking continues to mark time while the creative interval is dangero…
Consuming Social Change
Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education
(1980). Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 329-366
War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children
The war against terrorism is part and parcel of the war against democracy at home. This article argues that the war with Iraq will change the way the United States relates to the rest of the world as well as how it addresses the most pressing problems Americans face in their everyday lives. But the danger we face as a nation is not only related to the war in Iraq, it is also related to the silent war at home, especially because the Iraqi war and …
White Squall
‘Whiteness’ is no longer an invisible or marginal racial category. Within the last decade, ‘whiteness’ has become increasingly understood as an ideological, racial and political marker in both the rhetoric of right-wing conservatives and in the ‘new’ critical scholarship on ‘whiteness’. This article analyses both of these discourses while focusing on the strengths and limitations of the ‘new’ critical scholarship on ‘whiteness’. Finally, it raise…
Living dangerously
The cult of ethnicity and its zealots have put at stake the American tradition of a shared commitment to common ideals and its reputation for assimilation, for making a ‘nation’ of nations. (Woodward, 1991, p. 43). At the end of the 20th century, U.S. society is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse; more polarized along class lines; more alarmed by lesbians, gay men, and other sexual minorities; more conscious of gender differences; and,…
Educational Leadership and the Crisis of Democratic Government
This article is organized around three major assumptions. First, it argues that the current crisis of American schooling is symptomatic of a broader crisis in the meaning and practice of American democracy. Second, it contends that the dominant approaches to educational reform, particularly America 2000, appear to be at odds with educating students to be informed, critical citizens capable of actively participating in shaping and governing a demo…
Democracy and the Discourse of Cultural Difference
Within the last decade in the United States, diverse conservative groups have attempted to undermine the struggles of various progressive social movements that constitute the new politics of cultural difference. In this paper, I analyse how conservatives have sought to transform both the arts and the schools into hegemonic cultural sites. I then focus specifically on the work of conservative Diane Ravitch, who has been a major force in discrediti…
Beyond the biopolitics of disposability
Under the current reign of neoliberalism, the US has entered a New Gilded Age, more savage and anti-democratic than its predecessor. The current form of market fundamentalism demands a new set of conceptual and analytical tools that engage neoliberalism not only through an economic optic but also as a mode of rationality, governmentality, and public pedagogy. The essay develops a biopolitics of neoliberalism, exploring how it uses market values a…
Youth, Higher Education, and the Crisis of Public Time
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key educational scholar–activists respond to the challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, with co…
Democracy and the Politics of Terrorism
Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance
Research Article| August 01 2001 Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization Henry A. Giroux Henry A. Giroux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 61–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-3-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Henry A. Giroux; Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposabl…
Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies
(1978). Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 291-310
Paulo Freire's Approach to Radical Educational Reform
Critical Reviews
Social Education in the Classroom
This paper reviews recent studies on the relationship of classroom life to larger social/political institutions. It analyzes the phenomenon which Philip Jackson has identified as the “hidden curriculum”, that covert pattern of socialization which prepares students to function in the existing workplace and in other social/political spheres. The authors argue that this pattern has been largely ignored by social studies curriculum developers. By ign…
Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education
(1980). Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 329-366
Beyond the Correspondence Theory
Within the last decade various forms of radical scholarship have played an important in stripping schools of the ethical and political innocence attributed to them by functionalist social theorists. Inspired by the dream rather than the reality of liberal democracy, functionalist accounts of schooling echoed the cheery harmony of Talcott Parsons and described schools as socializing institutions designed to provide students with -the values and sk…
Response to Cornbleth
(1980). Response to Cornbleth. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 61-64
Antonio Gramsci
Harold Entwistle. Antonio Gramsci: Conservative Schooling For Radical Politics. Boston and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. 207 pages
Pedagogy, Pessimism, and the Politics of Conformity
In her critique of my work, Linda McNeil performs the creditable service of pointing to a number of important issues that to be clarified and debated as part of the ongoing task of developing a theoretical foundation for both an emancipatory mode of citizenship education and a more general theory of critical pedagogy. Unfortunately, in this case, her ability to single out and identify such issues has not been matched by a willingness to deal with…
Culture and Rationality in Frankfurt School Thought
The Politics of Educational Theory
In the transition to advanced capitalism, public schooling developed as the concrete counterpart and successor to the mythic legacy of the 19th century Western frontier. As the Western lost its innocence to the logic of capitalist industrialization and expansionism, the public school became the birthplace for unfettered social and economic opportunities. With state supported education, ideology became the order of the day. The folklore of capital…
Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education
In the past ten years radical educators have developed several theories around the notions of reproduction and resistance. In this article, Henry Giroux critically analyzes the major positions of these theories, finding them inadequate as a foundation for a critical science of schooling. He concludes by outlining the directions for a new theory of resistance and schooling which contains an understanding of how power, resistance, and human agency …
Critical Theory and Schooling
(1983). CRITICAL THEORY AND SCHOOLING: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RADICAL PEDAGOGY. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-21
Marxism and Schooling
Giroux's Response
Introducing the Real Sociology of Education
Commentary
Intellectual Labor and Pedagogical Work
Critical Pedagogy and the Resisting Intellectual Part II
Thunder on The Right
In the aftermath of the recent spate of national reports indicting the state of American schooling, a national debate is emerging to sort out the nature of the education 'crisis' and to provide a set of possible solutions. One such debate, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of National Affairs, the Institute for Educational Leadership, and Harvard Educational Review, brought together in a recent two day national conference a number of government spo…
Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren argue that many of the recently recommended public-school reforms either sidestep or abandon the principles underlying education for a democratic citizenry developed by John Dewey and others in the early part of this century. Yet, Giroux and McLaren believe that this historical precedent suggests a way of reconceptualizing teaching and public schooling which revives the values of democratic citizenship and social…
Education Under Siege
Teorias De La Reproduccion Y La Resistencia en La Nueva Sociologia De La Educacion
En los últimos 10 años los educadores radicales han desarrollado varias teorías acerca de las nociones de reproducción y resistencia. En este artículo, Henry Giroux analiza críticamente las principales posiciones de estas teorías, encontrándolas inadecuadas como fundamento para una ciencia crítica de la escolarización. El concluye delineando las direcciones para una nueva teoría de la resistencia y escolarización que contiene una comprensión de c…
Liberal Arts, Public Philosophy, and the Politics of Civic Courage
(1987). Liberal Arts, Public Philosophy, and the Politics of Civic Courage. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 331-335
The Management of Ignorance
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