At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
