This collection investigates the ways in which boys and young men negotiate neoliberal discourse surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes their identities. Expanding the field of masculinity studies in education, the contributors offer international comparisons of different subgroups of boys and young men in primary, secondary and university settings. A cross-sectional analysis of race, gender, and class theory is employed to illuminate the role of aspiration in shaping boys identities, which adds nuance to their complex "identity work" in neoliberal times.
Introduction Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, Derron O. Wallace Part
I
1. Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and
Schooling in a Neoliberal Age Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl Part II
2.
Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Manhood among Black African
Boys in London Derron O. Wallace
3. White Working-Class Boys in the
Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the "Aspiration-Raising" Agenda Sam
Baars
4. "Im Not Just One Type of Person": Aspirational Working-Class
Belfast Boys and Complex Embodied Performances of Educationally Successful
Masculinities Nicola Ingram
5. Coming of Age through the Recession: High
School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York City Patrick
Alexander
6. "I want to be a soccer player or a mathematician:" Fifth-grade
Black boys' aspirations at a "neoliberal" single-sex school Joseph Derrick
Nelson
7. Without my education I cant be somebody: Latino Masculinity,
School Contexts and Aspiration Mellie Torres
8. (Re)masculinizing "Suzhi
Jiaoyu" (Education for Quality): Aspirational Values of Modernity in
Neoliberal China Xiaodong Lin and Mįirtķn Mac an Ghaill
9. Gotta get that
laziness out of me: Negotiating Masculine Aspirational Subjectivities in the
Transition from School to University in Australia Sue Nichols and Garth Stahl
Part III
10. The Neoliberal Masculine Logic: Skilled Migration, International
Students, and the Indian "Other" in Australia Michiel Baas Conclusion:
Masculinity and Aspiration in the Era of Neoliberal Education: International
Perspectives Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, and Derron Wallace
Garth Stahl is a Lecturer and Researcher in Literacy Education and Sociology at the University of Australia, Australia.
Joseph Nelson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Boys and Girls Lives at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Derron Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education at Brandeis University, USA.
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