Regulating Social Life

Helena Ostrowicka is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is interested in the issues of broadly understood educational, youth, and scientific policy. She focuses on exploring the post-Foucauldian perspective in the analysis of discourse, and the relations of knowledge and power in four institutional contexts: education, science, politics, and the media.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The dispositif of age: dispositif, the concept of youth and temporalization.- Chapter 3: The 3-C discourses and governing by the notion of youth.- Chapter 4: Regulating social life: between experience and expectation.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.- Appendix 1.