Children of Rogernomics : a neoliberal generation leaves school / Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins & Judith Sligo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

Growing up in neoliberal times -- Identity: a project of the self -- Research tools --Beginning post-school transitions -- Great expectations -- Performing collective identities -- Spirituality as a resource -- Young people re-creating -- Children of the market? -- Culturally intelligible femininities and masculinities -- Transition interrupted: young mothers -- Unfolding plans -- Crafting identities.

"From 2003 to 2007 Nairn, Higgins and Sligo investigated what life was like for ninety-three young people coming to adulthood in the wake of Rogernomics. The authors conducted two interviews, one in participants' final year of high school and another twelve months later. The authors bring the lives, places and hopes of these young people into sharp focus. Their stories reveal the powerful psychic and material impacts of the discourses of neoliberalism, which obscure the structural basis of inequalities and insist that failure to achieve standard transitions is the result of personal inadequacy. They show how institutions drawing on deficit discourses create additional barriers for those who are 'other' - often young Pasifika and Maori, and young working-class women and men. But they show, too, how ordinary lives can be inspirational, and reveal the ways young people attempt to work and re-work the possibilities, opportunities and constraints of their times."--www.otago.ac.nz/press.

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