Stop mugging grandma : the 'generation wars' and why boomer blaming won't solve anything /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The generation wars; Boomer-blaming: The new acceptable prejudice; Myth-making and trouble-stirring; Symbolic warfare, with dangerous consequences; CHAPTER 2 Boomer-blaming; Constructing the campaigns; Austerity ballads: Creating a generational drama out of an economic crisis; The dangers of demographic determinism; Punk posturing: Sticking it to the Boomers; CHAPTER 3 Dramatising the crisis; Year Zero fantasies; Generationalist identities and the politics of division
- 'Healing' divisions or inflaming resentment?The problem of public opinion; CHAPTER 4 What's so special about generations?; The trouble with slicing and dicing; Concepts of existence; Reality clashes; Family stories; The families we live by; CHAPTER 5 Generation fables and the 'end of history'; What are generations responsible for?; Generation X and the 'end of history'; Generation as a political identity; Backlash against the Boomers; Passing the buck; CHAPTER 6 Millennial fears; Millennial angst: What are they moaning about?; Middle-class dreams
- and nightmares; 'Bad jobs' and work ethics
- Running scared from the zombie economyFearful futures; CHAPTER 7 'Youthquakes' and the politicisation of generational identity; Youthquake: What's in a word?; Voting the wrong way; Divided generations; Deep stories and generational identities; Contradictions of belonging; CHAPTER 8 'Democratic deficits' and the tyranny of 'future generations'; Wishing their lives away; Mobilising generational grievance; Demographic cleansing; Hiding behind the children; Forespeaking the needs of 'future generations'; CHAPTER 9 Ambivalent adulthood; Emerging adulthood
- and then what?; Growing up, growing old
- The culture of narcissism: The sequelMoral confusion; Where does this leave the kids?; CHAPTER 10 Social insecurities and grown-up policy-making; The dead weight of doomography; Pensions for living on; Houses for living in; Universities for educating; Families for relying on; Ending the generation wars; Notes; Bibliography; Index