Caught in the crossfire : kids, politics, and America's future / / Lawrence Grossberg

• Autore: Grossberg Lawrence
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.235097309045
• Soggetto topico: Children - United States - Social conditions; Youth - United States - Social conditions; Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century; Religious right - United States; Right and left (Political science)
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions 1945-; United States Politics and government 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published 2005 by Paradigm Publishers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Being Young Sucks"; Part I: America's War on Its Children; 1. Kids, the Enemy Within; New Rhetorics and Bad Behaviors; Discipline and Punish in Schools; Imprisoning Kids; Better Discipline through Chemistry; 2. Life in the War Zone; Generations of Kids; Misrepresenting Kids; Are the Kids All Right?; Follow the Money; What Did You Learn in School Today?; Has War Been Declared?; 3. Accounting for the Kids; Blaming the Media; Blaming Racism; Blaming the Parents ; Blaming CapitalismBlaming the "Family Crisis"; Interlude: Telling Stories; Part II: The Contemporary Political Field; 4. Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and Economic Theory; The Ideology and Spiritualization of the Free Market; The "New Economy"; 5. The New Conservatism; Getting Hold of the New Conservatism; Culture, Morality, and the Christian Right; Culture, Capitalism, and Neoconservatives; Building a New Conservative Movement; A New Conservative Revolution?; 6. Liberalism and the Left; Whose Left?; "We Already Know . . ."; "More Than You"; Truth and Strategy ; 7. Kids Out of Time (Unsettling Modernity)Blaming Progress; The Reinvention of Time and History; Kids Caught in the Crossfire; Struggles over Modernity; Part III: The Coming American Modernity; 8. The Struggle for "American Modernity"; The First American Modernity; The Second American Modernity; The Third American Modernity; 9. Reconstructing Political Culture; Politics and Liberal Modernity; Politics against Compromise; Affective Politics; Depoliticizing Politics; Rebuilding a Political Frontier; 10. Reconstructing Economic Life; Economic Struggles; Economic Realities ; Economic Dreams of Modernity11. Reconstructing Cultural Life; The Culture Wars and the Attack on Knowledge; The Reinvention of Identity and Individuality; Remaking Kids in the Name of Modernity; Conclusion: Kids and the Dilemma of American Politics; Kids and the Struggle for Imagination; The Dilemma of American Politics; Detour: A Nation Divided?; The Dilemma of American Politics, Continued; Notes; Name Index; About the Author
• Titolo autorizzato: Caught in the crossfire
• ISBN: 1-317-26274-3; 1-315-63567-4; 1-317-26273-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460723403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural politics & the promise of democracy.