That sinking feeling : on the emotional experience of inferiority in Germany's neoliberal education system / Stefan Wellgraf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellgraf, Stefan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--Germany--Berlin.

Educational equalization.

Emotions in adolescence--Germany--Berlin.

Emotions in adolescence.

High school students--Germany--Berlin--Psychology.

High school students.

Immigrant students--Germany--Berlin--Psychology.

Immigrant students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2023]

Summary:

"Emotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, has long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf's study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

That Sinking Feeling

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part I. Boredom and Beyond

Chapter 1. School in Ruins

Chapter 2. Distraction

Part II. Forms of Self-Empowerment

Chapter 3. Coolness

Chapter 4. 'Ghetto' Pride

Part III. Feelings of Inadequacy

Chapter 5. Grading

Chapter 6. Ugly Feelings

Part IV. Anger and Aggressiveness

Chapter 7. Anger

Chapter 8. Aggressiveness

Part V. Fears and Hopes

Chapter 9. Social Anxieties

Chapter 10. Cruel Optimism

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wellgraf, Stefan That Sinking Feeling

ISBN:

9781805390534

1805390538

OCLC:

1391439631