Decoding Youth and Neo-Liberalism: Pupils, Precarity, and Punishment

Ossei-Owusu, Shaun

doi:10.1080/10875549.2012.695536

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“…Comments calling on individual-level understandings of Bland’s arrest are common. They mirror American ideology of individualism and neoliberal logic of responsibilization (Ossei-Owusu, 2012; Rose & Miller, 1992), particularly that in spite of potentially harmful structural barriers, we as individuals are wholly in control of our lives and responsible for whatever happens to us. We see these ideals in a multitude of areas of social life—blaming the poor for their poverty, blaming criminals for their crimes, and blaming dropouts for their school failure (Phoenix & Kelly, 2013).…”

Section: Individual-level Blamementioning

confidence: 87%

Social Media Users’ Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video

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On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a Black woman, was pulled over by Officer Brian Encinia for failure to signal a lane change in Prairie View, TX. An altercation ensued and Bland was arrested and jailed. Three days later, her body was found in her jail cell and the week following, the dash camera footage was released of her controversial stop and arrest. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis based on a triangulated sample of social media posts in response to the arrest video of Sandra Bland, the current work explores how social media users understand the case of Sandra Bland. Specifically, we focus on where they cast blame and how they explain that blame.

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Section: Individual-level Blamementioning

confidence: 87%

Social Media Users’ Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video

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“…The importance of performance outcomes to neoliberal responsibilization in school manifests through frequent evaluations (Ossei-Owusu, 2012). While all schools place youth under scrutiny by measuring success/failure through grades and high-stakes testing, alternative schools require even more.…”

Section: Instilling Neoliberal Discipline At the Alternative Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Students must earn (or maintain) a minimum number of points before the school will consider their release (Fabens ISD, 2016; Hereford ISD, 2014; Red Oak ISD, 2016). As Ossei-Owusu (2012) argues, the lives of youth in general have become ‘under-girded by business logics’ like ‘incentivized performance benchmarks’ (p. 299). We see this clearly with the constant evaluation of alternative school students: labeled problematic, they are the ones who most need to demonstrate their potential as worthy neoliberal citizens.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Atomization interweaves with docilization and responsibilization to reinforce the acceptability, normality, and inevitably of exclusionary practices, subjugated social positions, and feelings of individual failure (Ossei-Owusu, 2012). Youth justice under neoliberalism ‘looks to further isolate and atomize the individual while instilling a defeating sense of self-guilt’ (Turner, 2015: 1).…”

Section: Instilling Neoliberal Discipline At the Alternative Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Imprisoning ‘Those’ Kids: Neoliberal Logics and the Disciplinary Alternative School

Selman¹

2017

Youth Justice

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Despite a perceived retrenchment of exclusionary school punishment, the disciplinary alternative school has emerged as a space in which to enforce upon marginalized students the logics of neoliberal carcerality. This article draws on the code of conduct handbooks of 15 Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs to illustrate how this space seeks to reaffirm social and economic marginality for certain youth. Specific processes in the alternative school prepare youth for a life of imprisonment, often characterized by criminal justice system involvement, but also precarious (un)employment. As such, this article situates the disciplinary alternative school as one of many ‘alternatives’ to carcerality through which the carceral state maintains its power.

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“…A second suggestion is that the neoliberalisation of society has contributed to citizens' increasing levels of cynicism with respect to politics and consequently to the erection of barriers obstructing-in particular-young people's political engagement [12,[15][16][17]. Investigations in youth studies have established the influence neoliberalism has on young people in education [18], social policy [19], poverty [20] and transitions to employment [21]. By way of contrast, the impact of neoliberalism on changing patterns of youth political engagement and political participation have been relatively under examined; one of the primary objectives of this article will be to address this gap in the literature.…”

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Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

Hart

Henn

2017

Societies

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Recent trends suggest that young people in Britain are increasingly rejecting electoral politics. However, evidence suggests that British youth are not apolitical, but are becoming ever more sceptical of the ability of electoral politics to make a meaningful contribution to their lives. Why young people are adopting new political behaviour and values, however, is still a point of contention. Some authors have suggested that neoliberalism has influenced these new patterns of political engagement. This article will advance this critique of neoliberalism, giving attention to three different facets of neoliberalism and demonstrate how they combine to reduce young people's expectations of political participation and their perceptions of the legitimacy of political actors. We combine ideational and material critiques to demonstrate how young people's political engagement has been restricted by neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has influenced youth political participation through its critiques of collective democracy, by the subsequent transformations in political practice that it has contributed to, and through the economic marginalisation that has resulted from its shaping of governments' monetary policy. This approach will be conceptually predicated on a definition of neoliberalism which acknowledges both its focus on reducing interventions in the economy, and also its productive capacity to modify society to construct market relations and galvanise competition amongst agents. From this definition, we develop the argument that neoliberal critiques of democracy, the subsequent changes in political practices which respond to these criticisms and the transformation in socioeconomic conditions caused by neoliberalism have coalesced to negatively influence young people's electoral participation.

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Decoding Youth and Neo-Liberalism: Pupils, Precarity, and Punishment

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Social Media Users’ Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video

Social Media Users’ Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video

Imprisoning ‘Those’ Kids: Neoliberal Logics and the Disciplinary Alternative School

Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

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