Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

The second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism examines the American “culture of cruelty” and everyday violence, from school violence to political deceit to mass hysteria promoted by media. Equating America’s obsession with zombies to a lack of hope and culture of despair, the author scrutinizes twenty-first century zombies on Wall Street and in political office who continue to promote authoritarianism and Social Darwinism, through which individuals and certain groups are considered disposable and easy prey. The author critiques the Obama administration, which espouses hope for the future, and yet has done little to change the survivalist culture that Americans have learned to live in. This book seeks to call attention to the everyday world that we live in and the politics and consumerism that define American culture. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and has a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His primary research areas are in cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. He is on the editorial and advisory boards of many scholarly journals and has published numerous books and articles. His most recent books are America’s Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (2013), Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014), and The Violence of Organized Forgetting (2014).