1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456126403321

Titolo

Improving intergroup relations among youth [[electronic resource] ] : summary of a research workshop / / Forum on Adolescence; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000

ISBN

0-309-51612-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Disciplina

305.235/0973

Soggetti

Youth - United States - Social conditions

Intergroup relations - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

Multiculturalism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations Congresses

United States Race relations Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27).

Nota di contenuto

Improving intergroup relations among youth -- This rich and growing diversity -- The meaning of positive intergroup relations -- Youth and identity formation -- Schools and their influence -- The power of teachers -- Curricula as tools -- School-based extracurricular activities -- Peer influence -- At home : parents and their influence -- In the community -- The role of media and technology -- Toward a new research agenda : the challenges.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465354803321

Autore

Malewitz Raymond

Titolo

The practice of misuse : rugged consumerism in contemporary American culture / / Raymond Malewitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9299-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

810.9/3553

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Consumption (Economics) in literature

Material culture in literature

Consumption (Economics) - United States

Material culture - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Misuse: From Aesthetics to Practice -- 2. Theaters of Rugged Consumerism -- 3. The Garden in the Machine: Biomimetic Hybrids and the Tragedy of Singular Use -- 4. The Rugged Consumer Bildungsroman -- 5. Ritual, Play, and Neoliberal Rugged Consumerism -- 6. The Commodity at the End of the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title examines the oppositional emergence and eventual ideological containment of 'rugged consumers' in late 20th century American literature, who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. The book shows how certain authors position their rugged consumers within the intertwined American myths of primal nature and rugged individualism, creating left- and right-libertarian maker communities that are skeptical of both traditional political institutions and (in its pre-neoliberal state) globalised corporate capitalism.