Capitalists and Conquerors A Critical Pedagogy against Empire

by McLaren, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780742541924
• ISBN10: 0742541924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book offers a scathing critique of the Bush Jr. administration and its drive for world domination, while also challenging conservative and liberal positions on global capitalism, the war in Iraq, the concept of democracy and political agency, and the role of public schooling. Capitalists and Conquerors offers readers a bold new socialist vision upon which to build an alternative to capitalism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Carl Boggs
Capitalists and Conquers: An Introduction	1	(18)
Peter McLaren
Part I: The Future of Critical Pedagogy
1 Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization	19	(56)
Peter McLaren
2 Revolutionary Pedagogy in Postrevolutionary Times: Rethinking the Political Economy of Critical Education	75	(40)
Peter McLaren
Part II: On Class, Culture, and Difference
3 Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future	115	(20)
Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale
4 After the Box People: The Labor-Capital Relation as Class Constitution and Its Consequences for Marxist Educational Theory and Human Resistance	135	(31)
Paula Allman, Peter McLaren, and Glenn Rikowski
5 Revolutionary Ecologies: Ecosocialism and Critical Pedagogy	166	(23)
Peter McLaren and Donna Houston
Part III: Neocons and Neoliberalism
6 The Legend of the Bush Gang: Imperialism, War, and Propaganda	189	(24)
Peter McLaren and Gregory Martin
7 The Dialectics of Terrorism: A Marxist Riposte	213	(48)
Peter McLaren
8 God's Cowboy Warrior: Christianity, Globalization, and the False Prophets of Imperialism	261	(74)
Peter McLaren and Nathalia E. Jaramillo
Postscript	335	(4)
Peter McLaren
Index	339	(14)
About the Author	353