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

• Autore: Grossberg Lawrence
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Caught in the Crossfire reveals how the United States has been gradually changing from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children. Today kids are often seen as a threat to our social and moral values. In schools, some behavior is criminalized, and growing numbers of kids find themselves in penal and psychiatric confinement. This breakdown is often too readily attributed to bad parenting, the crisis of the family, or the greed of capitalism. Grossberg offers a new and original understanding of the changes transforming contemporary America, and of the choices Americans face about their future. He documents the relations between economic ideologies and economic realities and explores what is going on in the "culture wars" as well as on the Internet and other new media. Caught in the Crossfire argues that all of these changes and tn struggles, including those involving the state of kids, only make sense as integral parts of a larger transformation to define America's uniqueness and to develop its own sense of modern culture. Part of the Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy Series.
• 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.: 9910962866103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural politics & the promise of democracy.