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Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
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This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

Author Biography:

Ronald Strickland is professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Illinois State University.
Release date NZ
June 25th, 2002
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Contributions by Andrew Kurtz
  • Contributions by Angela E. Hubler
  • Contributions by Bill Osgerby
  • Contributions by David M. Jones
  • Contributions by Elizabeth Kleinfeld
  • Contributions by Henry A. Giroux
  • Contributions by Jennifer Drake
  • Contributions by Jerry Phillips
  • Contributions by Margaret Henderson
  • Edited by Ronald Strickland
Pages
272
Dimensions
150x225x15
ISBN-13
9780742516519
Product ID
2203280

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