University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

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Routledge, 23 okt. 2015 - 232 sidor
President Eisenhower originally included 'academic' in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex - and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America. Giroux details the sweeping post-9/11 assault being waged on the academy by militarization, corporatization, and right-wing fundamentalists who increasingly view critical thought itself as a threat to the dominant political order. Giroux argues that the university has become a handmaiden of the Pentagon and corporate interests, it has lost its claim to independence and critical learning and has compromised its role as a democratic public sphere. And yet, in spite of its present embattled status and the inroads made by corporate power, the defense industries, and the right wing extremists, Giroux defends the university as one of the few public spaces left capable of raising important questions and educating students to be critical and engaged agents. He concludes by making a strong case for reclaiming it as a democratic public sphere.
 

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Challenging the MilitaryIndustrialAcademic Complex After 911
1
Higher Education in the Shadow of the National Security State
13
Corporate Power and the Academic Factory
102
Academic Unfreedom in America
137
A Strategy to Retake the University
200
Index
212
About the Author
223
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