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Against meritocracy : culture, power and myths of mobility / Jo Littler
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Abingdon, Oxon ; NewYork, NY : Routledge |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource |
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| 内容注記 | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ladders and snakes; Meritocracy as plutocracy; What's wrong with meritocracy? Five problems; Meritocracy as social system and as ideological discourse; How this book is organised; Notes; References; PART I: Genealogies; 1. Meritocracy's genealogies in social theory; Never start with the dictionary; Early genealogies, histories and geographies; Ladders and level playing; Socialist roots and critique; Social democratic meritocracy The critique of educational essentialismA 'just meritocracy'? the beginnings of neoliberal meritocracy; Meritocracy in the neoliberal laboratory; Notes; References; 2. Rising up: Gender, ethnicity, class and the meritocratic deficit; See where your talent takes you; Partial progression and painful ladders: mid-century welfare; Pulling rank: problems with welfarist rising up; Selling 1968; Parables of progress: luminous media fables; Not so cool: unequal employment; Selling inequality: post-feminism, post-race ... post-class?; Neoliberal justice narratives; Egalitarian and meritocratic deficits NotesReferences; 3. Meritocratic feeling: The movement of meritocracy in political rhetoric; Meritocratic feeling; Thatcherism in Britain; Major meritocracy; Blairism and beyond; 'Aspiration Nation'; Tragi-comedy: Bojo's 'hard work'; Blue-collar billionaires: Farage, Trump and the destabilisation of merit; Theresa May and the Middle England meritocrats; 'Aspiration for All'?; Meritocracy versus mutuality; Notes; References; PART II: Popular parables; 4. Just like us?: Normcore plutocrats and the popularisation of elitism; Meritocracy and the extension of privilege The 1%, the new rentiers and transnational asset-strippingNormcore plutocrats; Normcore aristocrats; The kind parent; Luxury-flaunters; The new rich are different; Notes; References; 5. #Damonsplaining and the unbearable whiteness of merit; #Damonsplaining and externalised white male privilege; Post-racial meritocracy; The racialisation of merit: people; The racialisation of merit: products; The racialisation of merit: production; Trying to shut women up; Calling out the myth of post-racial meritocracy; Externalised and internalised neoliberal meritocracy; Notes; References 6. Desperate success: Managing the mumpreneurDoing it all; Child labour; Desperate success; Entrepreneurial man; Magical femininity; The mumpreneur and the branded self; Disaggregation and alternatives; Notes; References; Conclusion: Beyond neoliberal meritocracy; Failing to convince; The journeys of meritocracy; What is the alternative?; Changing the cultural pull of meritocratic hope; Alternatives to the ladder; Notes; References; Index |
| 一般注記 | In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture - and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy's meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular 'parables of progress', from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the 'mumpreneur'. Paying special attention to the role of gender, 'race' and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society Open Access Includes index Print version record |
| 著者標目 | *Littler, Jo, 1972- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Social mobility LCSH:Plutocracy LCSH:Power (Social sciences) BISACSH:SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Plutocracy FREE:Power (Social sciences) FREE:Social mobility |
| 分 類 | DC23:305.5/13 |
| 書誌ID | ED00003750 |
| ISBN | 9781317496038 |