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Children of Rogernomics : a neoliberal generation leaves school / Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins & Judith Sligo.
Van Pelt Library LB1695.8.N45 N25 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nairn, Karen M. (Karen Marie), 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young adults--New Zealand--Attitudes.
- Young adults.
- High school graduates--Employment--New Zealand--Attitudes.
- High school graduates.
- Neoliberalism--New Zealand.
- Neoliberalism.
- Social conditions.
- High school graduates--Employment.
- New Zealand--Social conditions--21st century.
- New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Economic conditions--1984-.
- Economic conditions.
- New Zealand--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages : illustrations (some color ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Of specific interest to scholars of the sociology of New Zealand, this volume on the development of identity tracks the lives of young people who came of age during the period of neoliberal social and political policies during the 1980s and 1990s. The study explores the effects of neoliberal ideology on the development of careers, spiritual resources, gender expectations, and identity, and discusses the key sociological pressures of this particular time. The volume includes several full-color plates. Nairn is a professor of education at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Higgins is a researcher in economics and youth studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Sligo is a research fellow in next generation studies at the University of Otago. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 1 Growing up in neoliberal times 11
- 2 Identity: a project of the self 19
- 3 Research tools 29
- 4 Beginning post-school transitions 37
- 5 Great expectations 51
- 6 Performing collective identities 65
- 7 Spirituality as a resource 77
- 8 Young people re-creating 89
- 9 Children of the market? 111
- 10 Culturally intelligible femininities and masculinities 127
- 11 Transition interrupted: young mothers 145
- 12 Unfolding plans 159
- 13 Crafting identities 171.
- Notes:
- Authors are New Zealanders.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781877578182
- 1877578185
- OCLC:
- 792942276
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