Growing Up Postmodern - Neoliberalism and the War on the Young (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Culture and Politics Series
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	July 2002
Editors:	Ronald Strickland
Contributors:	Jennifer Drake • Henry A Giroux • Margaret Henderson • Angela E Hubler • David M. Jones • Elizabeth Kleinfeld • Andrew Kurtz • Bill Osgerby • Jerry Phillips
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-1651-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents
LSN:	0-7425-1651-2
Barcode:	9780742516519

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