Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives.

Autorentext
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

Inhalt
Expendable Futures: Youth and Democracy at Risk Youth in the Empire of Consumption: Beyond the Pedagogy of Commodification Locked Up: Education and the Youth Crime Complex In the Shadow of the Gilded Age: Biopolitics in the Age of Disposability Locked Out: Youth and Academic Unfreedom