Author(s)

Andrew Dawson

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Through an ethnographic case-study of a former coalmining town in England this article explores relationships between neoliberal restructuring and changes in inter-generational relations. I argue that neoliberalism has produced significant inter-generational structural schisms that, in turn have formed the basis of significant inter-generational cultural schisms. Furthermore, I argue that in several ways these bear the qualities of ethnic divisions.

Neoliberalism, Inter-Generational, Youth, Older People, Class, Ethnicity

Dawson, A. (2018) Youthquake: Neoliberalism and the Ethnicization of Generation. Advances in Anthropology, 8, 10-17. doi: 10.4236/aa.2018.81002.