Contested Individualization

Debates about Contemporary Personhood
2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7770-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Putting Gender Back In: Individualization and Social Policy Reform; J.Brody Late Modernity, Individualization, and Identity Capital: A Synopsis of Findings; J.Côté The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization; A.Elliott Individualization, Social Policy, and the Democratization of Personhood and Family Life; H.Ferguson Values, Role, and Character; P.Hoggett The Risk Society and Young People: Life at the Intersection of Risk, Economy, and Illiberal Governmentalities; P.Kelly Is Individualization Freeing, Redistributing Risk, or Changing Inequality Structures?: Five Key Debates in the Life Course Literature; M.Mills Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Intimacy at the Cutting Edge of Individualization; S.Roseneil Individualization as a Scheme of Interpretation: Why Class (and) Inequalities Persist; H.Strasser Individualization: Forms, Trajectories, Genealogies; W.Walters Individualization and Personhood; A.Yeatman

Über Autor(innen)

COSMO HOWARD is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, USA.