Contested individualization : debates about contemporary personhood / edited by Cosmo Howard
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- 4279431
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- vii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1403977704
- Summary:
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"Historical and contemporary debates about individualization are analyzed in this volume. It includes diverse contributions from class research, critical policy studies, life course methods, political theory, post-structuralism, psycho-social perspectives, queer theory, and social work. Many of the contributors critically engage with, and propose alternatives to, dominant neoliberal discourses of individualization."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Introducing individualization / Cosmo Howard
- Three models of individualized biography / Cosmo Howard
- Varieties of individualism / Anna Yeatman
- Individualization and the life course : towards a theoretical model and empirical evidence / Melinda Mills
- Individualization as an interpretive scheme of inequality : why class and inequality persists / Gerd Nollmann and Herman Strasser
- Individualization and ethical agency / Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo and Chris Miller
- Sutured selves, queer connections : personal lives at the cutting edge of individualization / Sasha Roseneil
- 'Lives of their own' free from violence individualization and child welfare interventions / Harry Ferguson
- The new social 'isms' : individualization and social policy re-form in Canada / Janine Brodie
- Governing individuality / Paul Henman
- Institutionalized individualism and the care of the self : single mothers and the state / Michelle Brady.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Howard, Cosmo
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