Growing Up Postmodern

Author : Ronald Strickland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742516512

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Growing Up Postmodern by Ronald Strickland Pdf

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

Author : Dr Peter Bramham,Professor Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1409488357

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Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City by Dr Peter Bramham,Professor Stephen Wagg Pdf

The widespread concept of the 'postmodern city' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture. In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism. Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves – commercially, politically and spatially – over the past two decades. The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city.

Author : John Docker
Publisher : Kerr Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781875703395

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Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3 by John Docker Pdf

John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.

Author : Mariam John Meynert
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443886208

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Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern by Mariam John Meynert Pdf

In the last fifty years, a debate between modernism and postmodernism has surfaced within the social sciences. Epistemologically, there has been a shift away from the concept of a “found” world, “out there,” objective, knowable and factual, towards a concept of “constructed” worlds, thus problematizing postulates based upon the autonomous, stable, unified, coherent and integrated subject capable of rational action, and opening up spaces for a new understanding of subjectivity based on provisionality and contingency. From the ashes of these tendencies for fragmentation have arisen the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research, creating spaces for constructing notions of children and childhood. The emergent child has an active agency, allowing the construction of a more dynamic child, located in a multiplicity of domains, opening up spaces for more flexible pedagogies and new sensibilities in educational research. Originating from a critical reading of texts in the area of childhood, pedagogy and educational research within the modern and the postmodern, this book extracts, appropriates and integrates parallel, but socially constructed, discourses across disciplines such as the sociology of childhood, the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of education. The book constructs conceptions of childhood both historically and within the modernist/postmodernist paradigm, and documents the implications of the paradigmatic shift from modernity to postmodernity for the study of childhood, as well as pedagogical practices and educational research.

Author : Friedrich Schweitzer
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 082723063X

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The Postmodern Life Cycle by Friedrich Schweitzer Pdf

A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice. Focusing on the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and exciting theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and prophetically lucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merely deconstructive or critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming a sort of doctrinal landscape, they emerge under the themes of theological anthropology shaped by ethnicity, class, and privilege; a Christology that intersects the claims of Christ and empire; and a Cosmology that imagines a postcolonial world.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Carlos C. Roberts
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 9781449053109

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Christian Education Teaching Methods - From Modern to Postmodern by Carlos C. Roberts Pdf

This book provides pastors, professional teachers, students of religious education or Christian education, theological students and Sunday school teachers with methods of teaching the faith today and opportunities to reflect critically on the methods and approaches they use in the classroom in the changed cultural context of our postmodern world. The book is the result of years of practical experience in the field of Christian education as a Director of Religious Education and head of a team involved in providing religious education training and producing teaching materials and textbooks for Sunday school and professional teachers of Christian education. This book proposes the Herald model of church and model of Christian education as a very helpful model for postmodern culture.

Author : Theo D'haen,Hans Bertens,Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9051838506

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Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism by Theo D'haen,Hans Bertens,Johannes Willem Bertens Pdf

Author : Len Platt,Sara Upstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042483

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Postmodern Literature and Race by Len Platt,Sara Upstone Pdf

Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

Author : Laura Uba
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791489079

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A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans by Laura Uba Pdf

Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans.

Author : Stuart Jeffries
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788738224

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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries Pdf

A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was also the forcing ground of the 'post truth', by means of which western values got turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the demolition of Pruit-Igoe, Madonna, Post-Fordism, Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit', Deleuze and Guattari, the Nixon Shock, The Bowery series, Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, the Musee D'Orsay, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, 9/11 We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?

Author : Lourdes Diaz Soto
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820441643

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The Politics of Early Childhood Education by Lourdes Diaz Soto Pdf

As the conservative political mood of our nation eliminates programs for the increasing numbers of bilingual children, educators are nevertheless expected to teach linguistically and culturally diverse learners with limited background knowledge and resources. This edited volume challenges "mainstream" educators to critically examine how to best meet the needs of bilingual/bicultural children in contemporary America.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609621551

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Blessed Assurance: A Postmodern Midwestern Life by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

In this book, a historian of women's lives turns the lens on her own experience. Her story is ?Midwestern? for its work ethic, modesty, faith, and resilience; ?postmodern? for its sudden changes, strange juxtapositions, and retrospective ?deconstruction of the ideologies that shaped its progress. It describes a life in and out of academia and a search for acceptance, recognition, equality, and freedom. The author of three books on women's experiences in Russia and Europe, Dr. Marcelline Hutton traces her personal journey from traditional working-class La Porte, Indiana, through college, graduate school, marriage, motherhood, divorce, and independence in Iowa City, Southampton, Kansas City, El Paso, and ultimately Lithuania. She arrives at a place of ?blessed assurance, ? recognizing who she was, what she has done, and what she most valued. The book is a testimony of life found and treasured and shared. We are privileged to see her world through this honest, perceptive, and insightful recollection.

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004647282

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Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 by Deborah L. Madsen Pdf

This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take account of work published in all subject areas and in all languages. Deborah Madsen has identified a new first occurrence of the term in 1926, preceding by more than twenty years the first occurence documented by the Oxford English Dictionary. In a chronological listing, books, articles, notes, letters and working papers on Postmodernism are described with full bibliographical details. Reviews of major books are documented and full contents listings are given for special issues of journals devoted to Postmodernism. An appendix includes books on Postmodernism announced for publication in 1995. This bibliography brings together in one place all secondary material published on Postmodernism. All disciplines are included, from anthropology to zoology: architecture, cultural studies, dance, drama, feminism, fiction, geography, history, legal studies, literary theory, mathematics, medicine, music, pedagogical theory, philosophy, photography and film, poetry, politics, religion, sociology, the visual and plastic arts, and others. The bibliography also documents items in a range of languages other than English: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovanian, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages. Access to the information contained in the bibliography is made easy with a comprehensive index providing guidance according to author, subject, language, and key words. Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 is an essential reference text for anyone working in the area of contemporary culture studies.

Author : Mikhail Epstein,Aleksandr Genis,Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571810285

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Russian Postmodernism by Mikhail Epstein,Aleksandr Genis,Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover Pdf

The last ten years were decisive for Russia, not only in the political sphere, but also culturally as this period saw the rise and crystallization of Russian postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifestations of this crucial cultural trend. Exploring Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, they provide a point of departure and a valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies which is currently insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. A brief but useful "Who's Who in Russian Postmodernism" as an appendix introduces many authors who have never before appeared in a reference work of this kind and renders this book essential reading for those interested in the latest trends in Russian intellectual life.