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OverviewWe are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster. Providing insights from millennials rarely profiled in the mainstream media, Cairns redefines entitlement as a fundamental concept for realizing economic and environmental justice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James CairnsPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.330kg ISBN: 9781442636378ISBN 10: 1442636378 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 28 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Age of Entitlement? 2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements 3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker 4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus 5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement versus Ecological Justice 6. Everything for Everybody Appendix: A Note on Methodology Glossary References IndexReviewsThe Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133). - Nora Loreto, Briarpatch Magazine The Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133). -- Nora Loreto, <em>Briarpatch Magazine</em> Author InformationJames Cairns is Associate Professor, Social and Environmental Justice, at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. He is the author (with Alan Sears) of A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry (2015) and The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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