Growing up postmodern : neoliberalism and the war on the young / edited by Ronald Strickland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strickland, Ronald.

Series:

Culture and politics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--United States.

Youth.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

United States.

Youth--Government policy--United States.

Youth--Government policy.

Young consumers--United States.

Young consumers.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.

Postmodernism--Social aspects--United States.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s.

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. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity. 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? / Ronald Strickland 1

2. "A Caste, a Culture, a Market": Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America / Bill Osgerby 15

3. The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of "Zero Tolerance" / Henry A. Giroux 35

4. Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City / Jerry Phillips 47

5. "Remorseless Young Predators": The Bottom Line of "Caging Children" / Gary L. Smith 65

6. Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance / Elizabeth Kleinfeld 87

7. Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter / Andrew Kurtz 107

8. Trouble Child: Barthes's Imagined Youth / Tim Scheie 123

9. The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine / Margaret Henderson 141

10. Female Adolescence and Its Discontents / Angela E. Hubler 169

11. The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular Culture and Third-Wave Feminism / Jennifer Drake 181

12. Post-'68: Theory Is in the Streets / Astra Taylor 205

13. To Be Young, Countercultural, and Black: Racial Pluralism, Countercultures, and African American Activism of the 1960s / David M. Jones 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742516504

0742516512

OCLC:

49672693