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Growing up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
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2002
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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.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1650-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3713-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
263
Product type
Edited Book
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1. Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? Ronald Strickland No access Pages 1 - 14
2. "A Caste, a Culture, a Market": Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America Bill Osgerby No access Pages 15 - 34
3. The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of "Zero Tolerance" Henry A. Giroux No access Pages 35 - 46
4. Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City Jerry Phillips No access Pages 47 - 64
5. "Remorseless Young Predators": The Bottom Line of "Caging Children" Gary L. Smith No access Pages 65 - 86
6. Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance Elizabeth Kleinfeld No access Pages 87 - 106
7. Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter Andrew Kurtz No access Pages 107 - 122
8. Trouble Child: Barthes's Imagined Youth Tim Scheie No access Pages 123 - 140
9. The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine Margaret Henderson No access Pages 141 - 168
10. Female Adolescence and Its Discontents Angela E. Hubler No access Pages 169 - 180
11. The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular Culture and Third-Wave Feminism Jennifer Drake No access Pages 181 - 204
12. Post -'68: Theory Is in the Streets Astra Taylor No access Pages 205 - 220
13. To Be Young, Countercultural, and Black: Racial Pluralism, Countercultures, and African American Activism of the 1960s David M. Jones No access Pages 221 - 252
