Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary Personhood

Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary Personhood

Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary Personhood

Contested Individualization: Debates about Contemporary Personhood

Hardcover(2007)

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Overview

Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403977700
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 01/10/2008
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 241
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

COSMO HOWARD is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, USA.

Table of Contents

Putting Gender Back In: Individualization and Social Policy Reform; J.Brody Late Modernity, Individualization, and Identity Capital: A Synopsis of Findings; J.Côté The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization; A.Elliott Individualization, Social Policy, and the Democratization of Personhood and Family Life; H.Ferguson Values, Role, and Character; P.Hoggett The Risk Society and Young People: Life at the Intersection of Risk, Economy, and Illiberal Governmentalities; P.Kelly Is Individualization Freeing, Redistributing Risk, or Changing Inequality Structures?: Five Key Debates in the Life Course Literature; M.Mills Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Intimacy at the Cutting Edge of Individualization; S.Roseneil Individualization as a Scheme of Interpretation: Why Class (and) Inequalities Persist; H.Strasser Individualization: Forms, Trajectories, Genealogies; W.Walters Individualization and Personhood; A.Yeatman
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