1st Edition
American Fascism and the Battle over Culture Social Theory, Moral Life, and the Renewal of Democratic Imagination
1. Introduction: Setting the Stage
2. A Crusade and the Crowd of the Dead: Understanding the Logic of the U.S. Right’s Attacks on Public Education
3. Under – and Outside of – the Specter of Menace: Crowds and Power in an Era of Mass Violence
4. The Dead, Their Hauntings, and Writing Ghost Stories
5. Keeping the Inner World Awake, for Our Sake: Maxine Greene, Zygmunt Bauman, and Wide-Awakeness in Somnambulant Times
6. Crowding out Death: Crowds, Resistance, and an Imaginary of Freedom (Postscript/Post-November 5, 2024)
Biography
Christopher G. Robbins (Ph.D.) is Professor of Social Foundations, Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Educational Studies, and the founding organizer of the Workshop for Community + Collaboration at Eastern Michigan University, U.S.A. His work can be found in The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Thesis Eleven and other titles.
Eric Ferris (Ph.D.) is a Secondary School Teacher in the United States of America. He is the author of The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World (2023).
'Ferris and Robbins offer an original and compelling account of how the culture of fascism operates as a pedagogical regime. In doing so, they illuminate the urgent need to make education central to politics itself.'
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, USA
