Doug and all,
I like much of John Bellamy Foster's work. He is a very talented writer. Foster has advanced my thinking on the environmental issue and much else. At the same time, this particular piece missed a great deal of work that is critical of the political economy of education thesis. Moreover Foster ignores the ceaseless work of Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz and others (see, for example, Policy Futues in Education, http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/). on these issues. Reading them would have produced a better piece of work. Aronowitz has good insights into education that keep coming. Foster should read Aronowitz's Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008) http://www.amazon.com/Against-Schooling-Education-Matters-Imagination/dp/1594515034/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310145478&sr=1-1 The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University (2000) http://www.amazon.com/KNOWLEDGE-FACTORY-DISMANTLING-CORPORATE-UNIVERSITY/dp/0807031224 Henry Giroux is one of the premier intellectuals of our time, a book a year. See one of his latest: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Culture-Capitalism-Popular-Everyday/dp/1433112272/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1310145696&sr=8-5 Giroux is mentioned today saluting David Price's new "Weaponizing Anthropology (2011) which was announced on Counterpunch today: A Great New Book from CounterPunch Here’s an exciting bit of news from CounterPunch. Fans of our website and newsletter will easily recall the terrific series of articles radical anthropologist and CounterPuncher David Price has contributed, on the march of the CIA onto the campuses, the deepening recruitment of anthropologists into the U.S.’s imperial wars. We’re very proud to announce David’s new book, Weaponizing Anthropology, just published by CounterPunch Books and AK Press and now available from our CounterPunch bookstore. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. He examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams. It’s a very important book, and here’s what Marshall Sahlins, one of anthropology’s current titans, says about it: “Even before he published this masterly and comprehensive account, David Price has long been in the forefront of those warning of the adverse effects of militarizing the human sciences. Now, by matching an extraordinary command of the sources to a telling sensitivity to the political and intellectual consequences, he demonstrates in this definitive work that weaponizing anthropology is as damaging to the soul of the nation as it is to the integrity of the science. “ --Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago And here’s Henry Giroux: “ This may be one of the most important books written in the last few decades on the merging of the military and intelligence agencies with the academy. Beautifully written and rigorously argued, Weaponizing Anthropology is a must read for students, educators, and anyone else concerned about the fate of the academy, the corruption of anthropology, the militarization of politics, and the future of democracy. –Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Author of University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex. One more testimonial from David Graeber: Anthropology was always a field of political struggle between servants and opponents of imperialism and it still is - with much of our funding, employment, and research direction still coming directly from the CIA and US military. No one genuinely concerned with the integrity of the discipline can afford to ignore this important book. –David Graeber, Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Order Weaponizing Anthropology now! Best, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jul 8, 2011 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [Pen-l] good essay on education n Jul 8, 2011, at 10:03 AM, [email protected] quoted an unnamed "top ducational theorist": > Can you imagine that he does not mention the work of Stanley Aronowitz Well, from what I've read by Aronowitz, I can almost understand the oversight. hat does he have to say on this particular topic? Doug ______________________________________________ en-l mailing list [email protected] ttps://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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