Challenges to democracy in and beyond education : American policy, politics, and media in a cynical age /: American policy, politics, and media in a cynical age. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Van Heertum.
• Authors: Van Heertum, Rich
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 306.20973; Political culture -- United States; Democracy and education -- United States; Cynicism -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2021-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000917222; 9781000917161
• Related ISBNs: 9780367688844
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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