Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour and Cultural Studies

by P. Cohen

Overview

Bringing together material written over the past two decades, this book traces a history of political and intellectual debates around central issues of education, labour and the youth question. An argument is made for linking the cultural, structural and autobiographical dimensions of the youth question in order to engage educationally with the burden of representation which young people are made to carry via race, class and sexuality in the postmodern world. The book includes three major unpublished pieces and an introduction which discusses the nature of the collection, and sets it in both a personal and political context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333631485
Publisher:	C.J. Pike
Publication date:	02/26/1997
Series:	Hunt Club Chronicles
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

PHIL COHEN is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of London, where he currently directs the New Ethnicities Unit. He was editor, with Angela McRobbie, of the Macmillan 'Youth Questions' series. His latest book is Not Just the Same Old Stories - Essays and Interventions in Racism's Other Scenes.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- PART 1: CLASS, GENDER AND 'RACE' IN URBAN YOUTH CULTURE.- The Writing on the Walls.- Subcultural Conflict and Working-Class Community.- Rules of Territoriality and Discourse.- Knuckle Sandwich and Sore Thumbs.- Policing the Working-Class City On the Wrong Side of the Tracks.- PART 2: TRANSITIONAL SUBJECTS.- Rethinking the Youth Question.- Losing the Generation.- PART 3: UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION.- Teaching Enterprise Culture.- No Kidding: Cultural Studies in School Transitions.- Negative Capabilities: On Pedagogy and Post-Modernity.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The greatest strength of Cohen's book is its ability to combine theory and practice. In fact, his work is an embodiment of this process, mixing 'street-life' and academia and, as such, is extremely important and valuable. The book clearly 're-thinks the youth question' in a number of very important and novel ways...is an extremely important contribution to the debates on the question of youth and is highly recommended for courses on youth and cultural studies.' - Journal of Youth Studies