Richard van Heertum

Challenges to Democracy In and Beyond Education (eBook, ePUB)

American Policy, Politics, and Media in a Cynical Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores political cynicism as a driving force at the heart of the current crisis of democracy in the United States, focusing on the crisis and the role of education, popular culture, and news media in fostering and fighting cynicism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000917222
• Artikelnr.: 68273852

Autorenporträt

Richard Van Heertum is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Arts and Sciences department at the New York Film Academy. He has previously taught at UCLA, CUNY, Drexel and the Art Institute, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Defining Cynicism: The Roots of a Political Disease 2. The
Shifting Political Discourse: Do What I Say, Not What I Do 3. Inequality,
Racism and the Psychology of Cynicism: White Resentment and Neopopulism
Unite 4. The Scourge of Fake News (Aka Propaganda is Winning the War on
Truth) 5. Educating Intolerance and Commodifying Knowledge: Schools in the
Culture Wars' Firing Line 6. Higher Education under Attack on Multiple
Fronts: Neoliberalism, Neopopulism and the Cloistering of Knowledge 7.
Representatives of the Political Subject in Popular Culture: Cultivating
Cynicism through Our Heroes and Villains 8. Corporate Hegemony and the
Struggle to Control the American Mind 9. Contesting Cynicism and Restoring
Hope