Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are engaged in resisting corporate values and in promoting social justice and human dignity. Ranging from socially engaged professors with a track record in grassroots involvement to popular educators, the interviewees challenge the manufactured consent produced by armies of intellectuals organic to dominant ideologies. Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements reminds us that strategic silence and/or indifference reproduces a common sense arrangement where critical «reading of the world» (Freire, 1987) is relegated to the periphery. Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are engaged in resisting corporate values and in promoting social justice and human dignity. Ranging from socially engaged professors with a track record in grassroots involvement to popular educators, the interviewees challenge the manufactured consent produced by armies of intellectuals organic to dominant ideologies. Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements reminds us that strategic silence and/or indifference reproduces a common sense arrangement where critical «reading of the world» (Freire, 1987) is relegated to the periphery. Preface vii Introduction ix Reflections from a Third Age Marriage: A Pedagogy of Reason, Hope and Passion 1(14) Nita Freire Nicaragua: Past and Present 15(8) Maria Hamlyn Zuniga Women, Peace and Middle East Politics 23(10) Nahla Abdo Lula, Freire, Liberation Theology 33(8) Frei Betto Popular Education, Social Movements and Story Telling 41(8) Chris Cavanagh Human Rights, Social Justice and Civil Society 49(12) Magda Adly Popular Education and Social Change 61(16) Jane Thompson Curriculum as a Political Text 77(10) William Pinar School Exclusion, Educational Enggement and Social Equity 87(12) Paul Cooper Theatre of the Oppressed: Italian Initiatives 99(8) Roberto Mazzini Lorenzo Milani and the Barbiana Legacy 107(18) Edoardo Martinelli Literacy, Micro-States and Postcolonialism 125(16) Didacus Jules A World That Can Be---Democracy, Education and Participatory Budgets 141(12) Sergio Baierle Critical Environmental Education `Justice in Trade' and the No-Global Movement 153(14) Vincent Caruana Trade Union Education in an Age of Globalization 167(14) John Fisher From Madness to Consciousness: Redemption through Politics, Art and Love 181(26) Antonia Darder Fascism, Colonialism and the Promise of Critical Education 207 Luiza Cortesao