Beyond the biopolitics of disposability: Rethinking neoliberalism in the New Gilded Age

Social Identities

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 587-620

  Giroux, Henry A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Discourse of possibility; Disposability; Education; Neoliberalism; New Gilded Age; Pedagogy; Public intellectuals; Rationality

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOCRATIZATION; ETHNOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS; RACE; STATE ROLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51849084249     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343432     Document Type: Article

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