That Sinking Feeling : On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System

ons, especially those of impoverished migrant families, have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling; raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf's study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times. [Publisher's text].

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