How Long to Read Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth

How Long Does it Take to Read Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 3 minutes to read Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth by Kate Cairns

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Description

This dissertation explores how rural young people imagine their futures in neo-liberal times. The analysis is based upon three months of ethnographic research with grade 7/8 students in 'Fieldsville,' a predominantly white and working-class rural community in Southeastern Ontario. I examine students' participation in a widely-used career-education program called The Real Game, in which they are encouraged to become entrepreneurial subjects capable of crafting productive futures in an uncertain world. My study asks: How do these young people produce and perform their imagined future selves, and what does this suggest about the opportunities and constraints that shape their current identities? Integrating insights from feminist poststructural theory and cultural geography, the project extends and challenges studies of the neo-liberal subject by integrating an analysis of place. The thesis builds upon, and contributes to, critical scholarship theorizing young lives as socially, spatially and temporally situated by exploring processes of location within subjectivity formation.Integrating classroom and playground observations with focus groups and interviews, the analysis reveals that young people draw upon diverse discourses in order to envision the person they hope to become. In addition to the subject positions on offer in The Real Game, popular culture provides a key resource in practices of self-making, as students invest in middle-class ideals of the "good life," and distinguish their own rural location from racialized mappings of urban and global others. Although Fieldsville students are deeply invested in their rural community, tensions emerge where local attachments meet dominant narratives of mobility that encourage them to locate their futures elsewhere. These place-based tensions present particular challenges for girls, who must negotiate the gendered dynamics of rural social space alongside popular discourses of "girl power" that proffer unlimited possibilities for today's young women. Teasing apart the intersections of gender, race, class and space within students' narratives, I argue that studies of neo-liberal subjectivity must examine how dominant discourses are negotiated from particular social and geographical locations. Methodologically, the analysis demonstrates how school-based ethnography can shed light on broader socio-historical processes as they are lived in specific geographical and cultural spaces.

How long is Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth?

Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth by Kate Cairns is 594 pages long, and a total of 150,876 words.

This makes it 200% the length of the average book. It also has 184% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 44 minutes to read Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth aloud.

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Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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