Introduction | Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world

Kowinski, San Francisco Chronicle Table of Contents And because the pattern she exposes could govern our future as well, The Shock Doctrine could turn out to be among the most important books of the decade.” -William S. “With a bold and brilliantly conceived thesis, skillfully and cogently threaded through more than 500 pages of trenchant writing, Klein may well have revealed the master narrative of our time. It’s nothing less than the secret history of what we call the ‘Free Market.’ It should be compulsory reading.” - Arundhati Roy “Naomi Klein has written a brilliant, brave and terrifying book. Will our future be one of social and ecological responsibility or increasing inequality and selfishness? For those of us who would prefer the former, Klein’s book will help us chart the course. This disaster capitalism, as she calls it, is the global context that frames our conditions of teaching and learning, our students’ lives, and everything from the wars we wage to the food we eat. From the 1973 Chilean coup - the other September 11 - through today, Klein demonstrates how shock has been used by global elites to push through a radical agenda of privatization and “free trade.” Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine is one of these. There are a handful of books - Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States comes to mind - that should be read by every teacher and teacher educator.

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