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Table of Contents
Preface 7 Chapter 1: Homo Economicus in Post-Schumpeterian Society
22 1.1
What’s So New About Liberalism? 23
1.2 Neoliberal Globalization: the End of History
35 1.3
Neoliberal Governance We Will Force You To Be Free 37
1.4 Neoliberal Urbanization and Non-Profits
42 1.5
Contemporary Youth Culture Under Neoliberalism 45
1.6 Political Messages: There Is No Alternative
48 1.7
Summary 51
Chapter 2: Towards A Theory of Neoliberal Reproduction 54 2.1 False Consciousness and the Frankfurt School: the Relevance of Dead
Germans
55 2.2 The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies
63 2.3 Beyond Consciousness: the French Turn
66 2.4 A Schematic Reconciliation
70 2.5 Political-Economic Formation: Habitus and Cognitive Dissonance
74 2.6 Towards Yet Another Third-Way: a Reformulated BothAnd Approach 76
Chapter 3: Young People and Neoliberalism: What We Don’t Know
79 3.1 Cultural Populism: There Is No Such Thing As Society
79 3.2 Beyond Identity: So What?
85 3.3 Media-Culture Effects: Cognitive and Others
92 3.4 CivicPolitical Participation
98 3.5 Lessons relevant for this thesis
102 Chapter 4: Methodology
104 4.1 Methodological Orientations: Critical This and That
105 4.1.1 Research Design: Operationalizing a BothAnd Approach
106 4.1.2 Institutional Interpellation: Habitus and Schema Theory
107 4.1.3 Institutional Neoliberal Interpellation: Meet Homo Economicus
110 4.1.4 Research Sites and Interview Schedule Design
115 4.1.5 Putting It All Together: Final Research Questions
116 4.2 Entering the Field: Los Angeles and London
117 4.2.1 South-Central LA: Collecting the Data
118 4.2.2 North Hollywood Zoo Magnet
119 4.2.3 The Bresee Foundation Non Profit Community Centre
122 4.2.4 World Vision Youth Empowerment Programme
123 4.2.5 London Bermondsey Youth Centre
124 4.2.6 Islington Political Youth
125 4.2.7 Hackney Youth Centre
125 4.2.8 Confidentiality and Other Ethical Considerations
127 4.2.9 Sampling Limitations and Demographic Breakdown
127 4.3 Data Analysis: A Socio-Cognitive Typology
130 4.3.1 Initial Thematic Analytical Groupings
130 4.3.2 The Socio-Cognitive Interface
132 4.3.3 Towards A Socio-Cognitive Typology of LA and London Youth
135 Chapter 5: Critical Political Youth Challenging Neoliberalism
138 5.1 Critical Political Youth: a Leftist Disposition
139 5.2 Schema Mapping: Operationalized Framework
154 5.3 Welfare and Poverty Schemata
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5.4 A Creeping Neoliberalism and Fatalist Dispositions 162
