{"product_id":"growing-up-postmodern-9780742516519","title":"Growing Up Postmodern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you care what 'young' means in the developed world today, Growing Up Postmodern's map of the seductions and blameflows of the newest regime is a vital source. Read it and use it to fight back! -- Fred Pfeil, Trinity College\u003cbr\u003eChildren are the collateral damage in a war that an affluent, unjust society has been waging under the sign of neoliberalism. This book presents the informed, incisive voices raised in protest. -- Amitava Kumar, author of Passport Photos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? Chapter 2 1 \"A Caste, A Culture, A Market\": Youth, Marketing and Lifestyle in Postwar America Chapter 3 2 The War on the Young: Coorporate Culture, Schooling and the Politics of \"Zero Tolerance\" Chapter 4 3 Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City Chapter 5 4 \"Remorseless Young Predators\": The Bottom Line of Caging Children Chapter 6 5 Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance Chapter 7 6 Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter Chapter 8 7 Trouble Child: Barthes' Imagined Youth Chapter 9 8 The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years ofTracks Magazine Chapter 10 9 Female Adolescence and its Discontents Chapter 11 10 The Mis\/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular Culture and Third Wabe Feminism Chapter 12 11 Post \"68: Theory in the Streets Chapter 13 12 To Be Young, Countercultural and Black: Radical Pluralism, Countercultures and African American Activism in the 1960s","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037571842391,"sku":"9780742516519","price":41.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742516519.jpg?v=1750936309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/growing-up-postmodern-9780742516519","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}