Disappearing Futures

Education Against the Politics of Disposability
This book is a series of dispatches written from the front lines of a nation teetering on the abyss of self-destruction.
This book is a series of dispatches written from the front lines of a nation teetering on the abyss of self-destruction. Written with the belief that language still matters, that critical pedagogy can still give a sense of urgency to moral witnessing, that culture is still a battlefield worth fighting for, Giroux tackles the unfolding nightmare of Trumps second presidency – a regime unshackled from even the pretense of democratic norms. He details a full-fledged fascist politics that traffics in erasure: of history, of the public good, of dissent, of bodies rendered disposable. From ICE agents disappearing students on US campus, to the attacks on USAID, to the war in Gaza, Giroux traces both the machinery of authoritarianism and the pedagogical, cultural, and civic