Against Meritocracy : : Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility.

Against Meritocracy : : Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility.

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Littler, Jo.
Place / Publishing House:Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.
©2018.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Ladders and snakes
  • Meritocracy as plutocracy
  • What's wrong with meritocracy? Five problems
  • Meritocracy as social system and as ideological discourse
  • How this book is organised
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART I: Genealogies
  • 1. Meritocracy's genealogies in social theory
  • Never start with the dictionary
  • Early genealogies, histories and geographies
  • Ladders and level playing
  • Socialist roots and critique
  • Social democratic meritocracy
  • The critique of educational essentialism
  • A 'just meritocracy'? the beginnings of neoliberal meritocracy
  • Meritocracy in the neoliberal laboratory
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2. Rising up: Gender, ethnicity, class and the meritocratic deficit
  • See where your talent takes you
  • Partial progression and painful ladders: mid-century welfare
  • Pulling rank: problems with welfarist rising up
  • Selling 1968
  • Parables of progress: luminous media fables
  • Not so cool: unequal employment
  • Selling inequality: post-feminism, post-race … post-class?
  • Neoliberal justice narratives
  • Egalitarian and meritocratic deficits
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. Meritocratic feeling: The movement of meritocracy in political rhetoric
  • Meritocratic feeling
  • Thatcherism in Britain
  • Major meritocracy
  • Blairism and beyond
  • 'Aspiration Nation'
  • Tragi-comedy: Bojo's 'hard work'
  • Blue-collar billionaires: Farage, Trump and the destabilisation of merit
  • Theresa May and the Middle England meritocrats
  • 'Aspiration for All'?
  • Meritocracy versus mutuality
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART II: Popular parables
  • 4. Just like us?: Normcore plutocrats and the popularisation of elitism
  • Meritocracy and the extension of privilege.
  • The 1%, the new rentiers and transnational asset-stripping
  • Normcore plutocrats
  • Normcore aristocrats
  • The kind parent
  • Luxury-flaunters
  • The new rich are different
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. #Damonsplaining and the unbearable whiteness of merit
  • #Damonsplaining and externalised white male privilege
  • Post-racial meritocracy
  • The racialisation of merit: people
  • The racialisation of merit: products
  • The racialisation of merit: production
  • Trying to shut women up
  • Calling out the myth of post-racial meritocracy
  • Externalised and internalised neoliberal meritocracy
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6. Desperate success: Managing the mumpreneur
  • Doing it all
  • Child labour
  • Desperate success
  • Entrepreneurial man
  • Magical femininity
  • The mumpreneur and the branded self
  • Disaggregation and alternatives
  • Notes
  • References
  • Conclusion: Beyond neoliberal meritocracy
  • Failing to convince
  • The journeys of meritocracy
  • What is the alternative?
  • Changing the cultural pull of meritocratic hope
  • Alternatives to the ladder
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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