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- Explores the relationship between discourses and power strategies and their roles in universalising the concept of the youth
- Destabilises 'problems' linked to the youth by showing different layers of apparatisation and generalisation, and how they regulate social life
- Draws on the works of Foucault and Koselleck to describe and interpret the temporal tension in the dispositif of age between the past, the present and the future
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the original concept of the ‘dispositif of age’, combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life. Making use of examples from sources including scientific and media statements, youth policy programmes, and strategies at international (European) and local (Polish) levels, the author shows how this concept of youth supports processes of social regulation and contributes to the implementation of political goals as specific responses to issues such as radicalization and violence, unemployment, and economic crisis. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of discourse and youth studies, but also to all post-Foucauldian researchers with an interest in going beyond simple 'applicationism'.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Helena Ostrowicka
About the author
Helena Ostrowicka is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is interested in the issues of broadly understood educational, youth, and scientific policy. She focuses on exploring the post-Foucauldian perspective in the analysis of discourse, and the relations of knowledge and power in four institutional contexts: education, science, politics, and the media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regulating Social Life
Book Subtitle: Discourses on the Youth and the Dispositif of Age
Authors: Helena Ostrowicka
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16888-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16887-2Published: 30 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16890-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16888-9Published: 18 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 172
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture, Semantics