Youth

Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.

The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.

“The present is a period of riots,” writes Alain Bertho.

It is difficult to imagine how any democracy could not be corrupted when war becomes the foundation of politics.

The conditions produced by the financial crisis have resulted in the foreclosure of not only millions of family homes, but also the future of young people.

The book is, above all else, an attempt to interrogate the increasingly hostile future our society is preparing, with no sense of shame or irony, for its next tenants …

A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.

The hybridized concept of “manchild” marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.

The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.

The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.