Tuesday, Oct. 28

Topics: Higher Education & neoliberalism

Read:

• Henry A. Giroux, “Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide,” Truth-out.org , Nov. 7, 2011.
• Matt Taibbi, “Ripping Off Young American: The College Loan Scandal,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 29, 2013.
• Keith Hoeller, “The WalMart-ization of High Education: How young professors are getting screwed,” Salon.com, Feb. 16, 2014.

Recommended:

• “Survey of Adjuncts at George Mason U. Finds Big Gaps in Training and Pay,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 9, 2014.
• Henry A. Giroux, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014) Introduction. [Available online here]

Thursday, Oct. 30

Topics: Tourism, poverty, and disaster

Read:

• Matt Steinbrink, “’We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective” Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment Vol. 14(2), 2012. [DOWNLOAD]
• Anna Hartnell, “Katrina Tourism and a Take of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans” American Quarterly Sept. 2009. {DOWNLOAD]

FRIDAY, OCT. 31 – RESEARCH QUESTION ASSIGNMENT DUE

 

 

Videos watched in class:

We watched a portion of the following interview of Henry Giroux in class (9:24-16:20) but the whole thing is worth a watch.