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Strange Love: Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Pau)

Strange Love: Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Pau)

Current price: $75.60
Publication Date: December 18th, 2001
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9780742516359
Pages:
256
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Description

Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so, the authors reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy.

About the Author

Robin Truth Goodman is assistant professor of English at Florida State University. Kenneth J. Saltman is assistant professor in the Social and Cultural Studies in Education program at DePaul University.