Education, individualization and neoliberalism. Youth in Southern Europe. First edition.

Autor/in	Visanich, Valerie
Titel	Education, individualization and neoliberalism. Youth in Southern Europe. First edition.
Quelle	London: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), 192 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Bloomsbury critical education
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-350-08245-8; 9781350082465; 9781350082472; 9781350082489
Schlagwörter	Bildungstheorie; Individualität; Generation; Individualisierung; Neoliberalismus; Philosophie; Hochschule
Abstract	"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"--. Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On individualization and neoliberalism -- Central questions of the book -- Organization of content -- On southern Europe -- On youth -- 1 The extension and expansion of education -- Conceptualizing youth -- Changes in the educational system in the last sixty years -- How did this all change? -- Changes in the educational system in southern Europe -- Education and social mobility -- 2 The currency of academic credentials, consumerism and financial burdens -- Academic capitalism -- The debt generation. The origins of consumer seduction for youth -- Conspicuous consumption, marketing seduction and subcultural identities -- The use of commodities: agency and subcultural capital -- Cashing on counter-culture identities -- Conclusion -- 3 Unemployment in the graduate economy -- The common post-war Anglo-American experience -- Changes in the labour market -- The situation in the south -- Conclusion -- 4 Neoliberal intersubjectivity: A way of doing things -- The structure of feeling of millennials -- Changes from collective to individual: From welfare ideology to neoliberal subjectivity. Personal branding and the culture of perfectionism -- Conclusion -- 5 Shock-Absorbers for youth in the South -- Welfare provisions in the South -- Family formation and kinship ties -- Leaving parental home -- Family responsibility and gendered roles -- Conclusion -- 6 Slow motion changes in the South: The case of a small Southern European state -- The Maltese case -- Malta's colonial and postcolonial status -- Historical overview on opportunities for higher education -- Economic shifts in recent years -- Application of laissez-faire measures and individualization. The spread of neoliberalism and individualization: Inhibiting cultural agents -- Conclusion -- 7 The meanings and feelings of tertiary-educated millennials in the South -- Fieldwork -- Social types of individual life biographies -- Degree of agency -- The degree of anxiety -- Negotiation and accommodation of cultural conditions -- Education and the job market -- Choices in consumption -- Compromised choices in the lives of women -- Conclusion -- Summary and conclusions -- Recommendations -- End remarks -- References -- Index.
Erfasst von	Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Update	2022/2