The Vertigo of Late Modernity

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ISBN: 9781412935739 | 1412935733
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Copyright: 2/22/2007

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The Vertigo of Late ModernityÂ engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock YoungÂ brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Crossing the borderline	p. 1
The disembededness of everyday life	p. 3
The genesis of othering	p. 5
The attractions of hiatus	p. 7
The vertigo of late modernity	p. 11
Turbo-charged capitalism	p. 14
Blurring the binary vision	p. 17
Blurring the boundaries	p. 21
Bulimia: not exclusion but inclusion/exclusion	p. 23
Crossing the borderline: against the dual city thesis	p. 25
The functional underclass	p. 28
The boundaries of bulimia	p. 30
The precariousness of inclusion	p. 34
The focus on the underclass	p. 36
Crime and the narrowing of differences	p. 37
Globalisation and the generation of domestic and global discontent	p. 38
The sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression	p. 41
Fear of falling	p. 44
The change in the focus of reward	p. 45
Towards a criminology of transgression	p. 46
The rise of celebrity	p. 49
Humiliation and rebellion	p. 51
The satisfactions of transgression	p. 53
The humiliation of exclusion	p. 55
Edgework, ontological security and utopia	p. 56
From turf war to real war	p. 57
Hip hop across the borders	p. 58
Chaos and the coordinates of order	p. 59
Class and identity in the twenty-first century	p. 60
The undermining of the meritocracy	p. 64
Changes in the perceived class structure	p. 65
The shift to identity politics	p. 68
Antecedents of the cultural shift	p. 71
The war against the poor	p. 73
The meta-humiliation of poverty	p. 76
The decline of work and the invisible servant	p. 78
The declining centrality of work?	p. 78
Getting the poor to work: the US experiment	p. 81
Redemption through labour	p. 82
Including the excluded	p. 85
Welfare: from relief to irresponsibility	p. 86
Early morning in Harlem	p. 87
The invisible worker	p. 91
The invisible servant	p. 92
Entering the zone of humiliation	p. 95
Service as a feudal relationship	p. 96
The invisible poor in a classless society	p. 98
Guilt and middle-class solipsism	p. 99
Social inclusion and redemption through labour	p. 100
New Labour: new inclusionism	p. 104
The Welfare State: not the solution but the problem	p. 106
The will to win	p. 107
Many's the slip 'twixt cup and lip: New Labour's obsessional neurosis	p. 110
The moral panic over teenage pregnancy	p. 112
Rationality and the middle classes	p. 118
The errors of inclusion	p. 119
From structure to agency: beyond the weak thesis	p. 124
Social and political exclusion	p. 126
Crossing the border: to these wet and windy shores	p. 130
The social construction of the immigrant	p. 131
To these wet and windy shores	p. 133
Two modes of entry	p. 137
Over 20 years ago: the riots of 1981	p. 139
Crime immigration and the demonisation of the other	p. 140
The roots of othering	p. 141
The final phase: the irony of assimilation	p. 143
The roots of the disturbances	p. 143
The riots in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley	p. 144
Postscript: the riots in France 2005	p. 147
Terrorism and anti-terrorism terrorism: the banality of evil	p. 149
Proxy wars and the defeat of the Soviet Union	p. 151
Occidentalism	p. 152
The House of Bush and the House of Saud	p. 154
The two contradictions: inside and outside the First World	p. 154
Symmetry and differences	p. 157
The sasnitisation of evil	p. 158
The beatification of evil	p. 158
The logic of the West	p. 159
The photographs from Abu Grahib	p. 160
Love was all they had to set against them	p. 161
The London bombing and the banality of evil	p. 162
The dialectics of othering and the problem of evil	p. 164
The generation of anger and the frustration of normality	p. 164
The othering of the otherer	p. 165
The summoning up of violence	p. 166
Violence and the metaphor of war	p. 168
Elsewhere: on the D train to Manhattan	p. 173
Urban somnambulism: elsewhere in a Brooklyn deli	p. 174
The exclusive community	p. 175
The organic community	p. 176
Othering in the Ardoyne: the holy cross school	p. 179
The turn to the dark side	p. 180
The fallacy of privileging community	p. 181
Enter virtual reality: elsewhere in the east end	p. 183
Stars, celebrities: guiding narratives for a shifting world	p. 184
The Cronus effect and broken narratives	p. 185
The deterritorialisation of community and the rise of the virtual	p. 187
Elsewhere in an elevator: John Jay College, October 2004	p. 188
The rise of multi-media and the uninvited guest	p. 188
From generalised other to generalised elsewhere	p. 189
From community to public sphere	p. 192
The community in late modern times	p. 194
Conclusion: Roads to elsewhere	p. 197
Affirmative and transformative inclusion	p. 198
The politics of redistribution	p. 199
Towards a new politics of inclusion	p. 201
The politics of deconstruction	p. 202
Othering and community	p. 203
The banishment of unreason	p. 204
Rationality, the new media and the public sphere	p. 206
The porous community	p. 209
Hyperpluralism and the elusive other	p. 210
Towards a politics of diversity	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 225
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