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Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy: Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism
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ISBN-13: | 9780810885288 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 07/30/2012 |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 5.97(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.78(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Author’s PrefacePart I: Setting the StageChapter 1: Should We Be Bothered By Library Marketing and Advertising in the Classroom, and If So, Why?—An IntroductionChapter 2: An Historical View I: A Précis on the Entanglements of Democracy, Education, and Libraries in AmericaChapter 3: An Historical View II: A Précis on Advertising in Schools, Marketing in Libraries, and the Appeal of NeoliberalismChapter 4: From Theoretical to Empirical Critiques of Advertising: Have They Deepened Understanding of Democracy and Our Educative Institutions?Part II: The Insights of Democratic TheoryChapter 5: Tocqueville and the Centrifugal/Centripetal Forces Within America: Why (and How Much) Our Practices in Libraries and Classrooms MatterChapter 6: A Practical Communitarianism: Educative Institutions, Social Bonds, and Neoliberalism’s IncursionsChapter 7: Deliberative Democratic Theory’s Deeper Critique: The Profound Effects of Neoliberalism’s Grammar in Educative InstitutionsChapter 8: Looking Ahead at Neoliberalism’s Trajectory: The Continuing Interests of Democracy and Educative Institutions—A ConclusionReferencesAuthor BiographyWhat People are Saying About This
Libraries and other U.S. educational institutions can reject neo-liberalism, but first we need to understand the evolution of this soul-limiting strategy of self interest that pervades U.S. institutions in the 21st century. John Buschman explicates the advance of neo-liberalism in Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy and provides thoughtful philosophical insight with contemporary examples such as the effects of the Citizens United decision. Buschman extends the deliberations of critical educational theory, communitarianism, and Jürgen Habermas among others to the enterprise of librarianship. He demonstrates that libraries are one of the important cultural sites that provide for the capacities of sound judgment in a democracy. The model of the Occupy Wall Street library provides a respite from institutional weariness and gives promise to a break with the neo-liberal ideas. As in his Dismantling the Public Sphere, Buschman provokes librarians to understand the political and social context of our practice.
The author is an erudite scholar who helps the reader to think about how democracies can deal with the challenges of this current historical phase. Dr. Buschman understands that neoliberalism is hegemonic, and he draws on wide scholarship to explore some of the history of democratic theory and its intertwinements with capitalism. We meet Tocqueville, John Dewey, Marx, Michael Sandel, Habermas, and many others who have wrestled with these issues in historical and contemporary terms. These complex arguments are brought to bear with clarity on an explanation of how the market has pierced classrooms and libraries with advertising and marketing—and why this is of concern in the interests of democracy. Paraphrasing Michael Parenti about the wants of the wealthy and powerful, when asking what neoliberalism seeks to shape, the answer is: most everything.