Insurrections in the age of counter-revolutions
Rethinking cultural politics and political education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12425212 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H A Giroux (0000-0003-1637-9142, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 90-120 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1071-4413 • E-ISSN: 1556-3022 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10714413.2022.2044706 |
| OpenAlex | W4223525550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The United States is at a turning point in its history. Insurrection has become a dominant motif describing a country torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism that trades in lies, lawlessness, and a rebranded fascist politics. In this article, I analyze the contrasting visions, politics, and role of education that are central to both notions of insurrection. In the first instance, I argue that insurrectional authoritarianism is wedded to a fascist legacy that calls for racial purity, militarism, ultra-nationalism, and state terrorism. In the second instance, I analyze insurrectional democracy as a mode of resistance that has a long legacy in the battle for racial justice, economic equality, and a politics of inclusion. The article explores how both positions are motivated by particular understandings of education, agency, and the future. Within this distinctive historical moment, both participate in a landscape in which images, the social media, and the Internet play a decisive role in merging political education, power, and cultural politics. Both notions of insurrection infuse cultural politics with a specific language that narrate their visions and work to produce particular modes of agency, identifications, and social relations. At the core of the article is an analysis of how each narrative uses language and cultural politics to define their different notions of insurrection and how education and politics merge to create militarized identities operating in a warring environment in which the very categories of politics, education and democracy are on trial. I conclude that insurrectional authoritarianism has created the context for a civil war marked by a number of counter-revolutionary interventions in which ideas are married to violence and present a threat to democracy. I conclude with a call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politics in order to produce an anti-capitalist consciousness as the basis for a mass movement in defense of socialist democracy
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |