Valerie Visanich

Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism

Youth in Southern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism questions the individualization process in education in the Anglo-American context and analyses how this process is applied in the everyday life of millennials with tertiary education in Southern Europe. Valerie Visanich explores the close affinity of this concept to neoliberalism in contemporary societies, specifically by focusing on changes in education and employment. Using Beck & Beck-Gernsheim's concept of individualization to refer to increased freedom in one's life choices yet at the same time increased risks, Visanich unpacks the trajectories of life experiences of tertiary educated millennials in the contemporary neoliberal Anglo-American setting in relation to recent cultural and socio-economic changes. She examines how this individualized mode is adopted and adapted in countries across Southern Europe including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Greece - in locations where cultural conditions habitually cushion-out, often by family networks and patronage, some of the burdens of being young today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781350082458
• ISBN-10: 1350082457
• Artikelnr.: 58025166

Autorenporträt

Valerie Visanich is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta, Malta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Extension and Expansion of Education 2. The Currency of
Academic Credentials, Consumerism and Financial Burdens 3. Unemployment in
the Graduate Economy 4. Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Way of Doing Things 5.
Shock-Absorbers for Youth in the South 6. 'Slow Motion' Changes in the
South: The Case of a Small Southern European State 7. The Meanings and
Feelings of Tertiary Educated Millennials in the South Summary and
Conclusions Bibliography Index