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Gender, work and community after de-industrialisation : a psychosocial approach to affect / Valerie Walkerdine, Luis Jimenez.
LIBRA HN398.W26 W35 2012
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Van Pelt Library HN398.W26 W35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walkerdine, Valerie.
- Series:
- Identity studies in the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community life--Wales, South.
- Community life.
- Youth--Wales, South--Attitudes.
- Youth.
- Group identity--Wales, South.
- Group identity.
- Unemployment--Social aspects--Wales, South.
- Unemployment.
- Social conditions.
- Unemployment--Social aspects.
- Wales, South--Social conditions--21st century.
- Wales, South.
- South Wales.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- How does an industrial community cope when they are told than closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200-year-long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective spaces or how the fall of the whole house of cards brought with it effects which can be felt by young people who never knew the town when it was an industrial heartland. We hear the story of how men and women tried to cope and still want to retain their community in the face of its destruction. What can they and will they have to pass to the next generation and where will that leave the young people themselves, who have nothing to stay for but are unable to leave? This book examines these crucial questions facing post-industrial societies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Two Hundred Years of Iron and Steel 6
- 2 Advanced Liberalism 32
- 3 Communal Beingness and Affect 46
- 4 De-Industrialisation, Suffering, Crisis and Catastrophe 72
- 5 Producing Pride in Masculinity: The Hard Steelworker 92
- 6 The Next Generation 117
- 7 Women, Gays and Mammy's Boys 137
- 8 What about the Women? 162
- 9 To the Future? 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230247062
- 0230247067
- OCLC:
- 748328910
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