Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent

"Denzin and Giardina have brought together the works of leading cultural critics who have given cultural studies a global framework that meets our need to examine the governing strategies of the military, the economy, the media, and educational elites...This is a must-read for those who want cultural studies to really matter in the present moment." Patricia Ticineto Clough Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies after 9/11 is a landmark text. Leading scholars from cultural studies, education, gender studies, and sociology reposition critical cultural studies research around the goals of moral clarity and political intervention. Chapters range in focus from neoliberalism and democracy to America's war on kids and the cultural politics of national identity.

Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities at the University of Illinois, is one of the world's leading authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, and the author of more than a dozen books.

Michael D. Giardina is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Florida State University.  He is the author of Sporting Pedagogies: Performing Culture & Identity in the Global Arena (Peter Lang, 2005) and Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (2011, Palgrave), editor of series of books on qualitative inquiry (with Norman Denzin), and editor of numerous other volumes. He is the Associate Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal.