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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337718603321

Autore

Ostrowicka Helena

Titolo

Regulating Social Life : Discourses on the Youth and the Dispositif of Age / / by Helena Ostrowicka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-16888-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse, , 2946-6008

Disciplina

305.235

Soggetti

Linguistics - Methodology

Sociology

Social groups

Youth - Social life and customs

Semiotics

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Youth Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The dispositif of age: dispositif, the concept of youth and temporalization -- Chapter 3: The 3-C discourses and governing by the notion of youth -- Chapter 4: Regulating social life: between experience and expectation -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Appendix 1.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the original concept of the ‘dispositif of age’, combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life. Making use of examples from sources including scientific and media statements, youth policy programmes, and strategies at international (European) and local (Polish) levels, the author shows how this concept of youth supports processes of social regulation and contributes to the implementation of political goals as specific responses to issues such as radicalization and violence, unemployment,



and economic crisis. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of discourse and youth studies, but also to all post-Foucauldian researchers with an interest in going beyond simple 'applicationism'. Helena Ostrowicka is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies at Casimirus the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is interested in the issues of broadly understood educational, youth, and scientific policy. She focuses on exploring the post-Foucauldian perspective in the analysis of discourse, and the relations of knowledge and power in four institutional contexts: education, science, politics, and the media.