Youth in a Suspect Society

Democracy or Disposability?
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-61329-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giroux, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Expendable Futures: Youth and Democracy at Risk Youth in the Empire of Consumption: Beyond the Pedagogy of Commodification Locked Up: Education and the Youth Crime Complex In the Shadow of the Gilded Age: Biopolitics in the Age of Disposability Locked Out: Youth and Academic Unfreedom

Über Autor(innen)

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.