Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale

• University of Windsor

This article explores how Donald Trump capitalized on the right’s decades-long, carefully choreographed and well-financed campaign against political correctness in relation to the broader strategy of ‘cultural conservatism.' It provides an historical overview of various iterations of this campaign, discusses the mainstream media’s complicity in pro...

This chapter provides an overview of the central tenets of Karl Marx’s materialist conception of history reflective of his focus on modes of production, the active production and reproduction of ideology, and his theory of consciousness as a social product. It explores how his approach to both being (ontology) and knowledge (epistemology) precipita...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to engage some of the central themes of Gayatri Spivak’s seminal essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak? (CSS)” In particular, her criticisms of post-structuralism’s treatment of the “subject” as well as its privileging of “discourse” and micrological analyses of power vis-à-vis her discussion of Foucault and Deleuze....

Review Symposium: Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Toward a new Humanism www.jceps.com/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/05-2-04.pdf Review One: Confronting the Nattering Nabobs of Neoliberalism and the. Emissaries ... Essay Review 1-Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale and Ghada Chehade, Essay Review 2-Richard Kahn, Clayton Pierce and Essay Review 3-S...

Many accounts of the conservative movement and the origins of its philanthropic base tend to point to two prominent figures—William F. Buckley, Jr. and Lewis Powell. Indeed, Buckley is often referred to as the father of modern conservatism and Lewis Powell is credited with mobilizing big business to the cause of fighting “liberal” orthodoxy and rei...

Never before has censorship been so perfect. Never before have those who are still led to believe … that they remain free citizens, been less entitled to make their opinions heard, wherever it is matter of choices affecting their real lives. Never before has it been possible to lie to them so brazenly.631

At the 2005 College Republican National Convention, David Horowitz, arguably one of the most notorious and caustic pugilists of the culture wars, brought down the proverbial house by asserting that: “Universities are a base of the left. Universities are a base for terrorism.” He also informed his obsequious audience that the “future of the free peo...

The story of terrorism is written by the state and is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.60

After 9/11, rightists capitalized on an atmosphere of fear and confusion to resuscitate the “culture wars” of the 1990s and once again targeted the academy. Using tactics reminiscent of the McCarthy era, religious firebrands, militant neoconservatives, and free market fundamentalists engaged in a concerted effort to silence voices critical of the ‘...

Im deutschsprachigen Raum fehlt eine Analyse, die nach dem systematischen Wert der Cultural Studies für pädagogisches Deuten und Handeln fragt. Genau diesem Zusammenhang widmet sich das vorliegende Buch, das untersucht, inwiefern das erkenntnispolitische Projekt der Cultural Studies zur Erhellung pädagogisch relevanter Felder und Sachverhalte, aber...

This article examines some of the major Marxist-humanist themes that animate the revolutionary critical pedagogy delineated by Peter McLaren in recent years. Among these themes are radical universalism, an interrogation of the capitalization and commodification of human labor, and the interrelatedness of American imperialism and neoliberal globaliz...

Capital's World Disorder We are living in harsh and dangerous times. This is not a hasty value judgment; rather, it is a statement based on reflections on our own experiences living on this planet that we embracingly refer to as Mother Earth. Certainly, if we were living in a Star Trek episode we might ask Captain Kirk to rescue us. Unfortunately,...

This article argues against the radical displacement of class analysis and the decentering of capitalism within contemporary theoretical narratives, the political pusillanimity of post-Marxist “culturalist” discourses, and offers a historical materialist critique of the “politics of difference.” The authors argue that much of what falls under the r...

"In light of the horrific inhumanity unleashed by war and global capitalism, Rosa Luxembourg’s famous challenge—socialism or barbarism—has never been more apposite as the world has clearly moved closer to the latter. On Mayday 2003, we must remind ourselves of the importance of solidarity and that the struggle for peace and justice goes hand in han...

In recent years there has been a veritable explosion in Fanonian studies and this would be a welcome development given the scope and depth of Fanon's insights. Unfortunately, Fanon's work itself has been “post-alized” in recent years especially in the Western literary academy. This exploration of Fanon's work has, for the most part, been in the for...

"With every line, Freire's writings emanate a spirit, a sense of urgency, and an intensity which is as rare as it is refreshing. He was a passionate pedagogue and activist--someone who too the theory/practice nexus seriously, someone who was engaged in struggle all his life, someone who was much more than an armchair academic."