Myth of the Age of Entitlement

James 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).

• Acknowledgements1. The Age of Entitlement?2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement versus Ecological Justice6. Everything for EverybodyAppendix: A Note on MethodologyGlossaryReferencesIndex

"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, Briarpatch Magazine