Myth of the Age of Entitlement

Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster. Providing insights from millennials rarely profiled in the mainstream media, Cairns redefines entitlement as a fundamental concept for realizing economic and environmental justice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:330 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442636378

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James Cairns is Associate Professor, Social and Environmental Justice, at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. He is the author (with Alan Sears) of A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry (2015) and The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Recensioner i media

"The Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133)." - Nora Loreto, Briarpatch Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements1. The Age of Entitlement?2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement versus Ecological Justice6. Everything for EverybodyAppendix: A Note on MethodologyGlossaryReferencesIndex