Full Description
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
Introduction
1. The Extension and Expansion of Education
2. The Currency of Academic Credentials, Consumerism and Financial Burdens
3. Unemployment in the Graduate Economy
4. Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Way of Doing Things
5. Shock-Absorbers for Youth in the South
6. 'Slow Motion' Changes in the South: The Case of a Small Southern European State
7. The Meanings and Feelings of Tertiary Educated Millennials in the South
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
