THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 267: Ok Boomer! Generational Discourse Without Class Analysis

2022-04-06

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What are the origins of the term OkBoomer? Does this generational outcry stem from a reality in which discourse is controlled by youth due to the prevalence of social media, or is there a materialist socio economic basis to this framing that attempts to lay generational blame for our current reality on a certain cohort? Are there any political utilities to using generational analysis to shape political forecasting? What can we learn from such discourse? Should it be abandoned? Jason Mueller Global Political Economy; Cultural Political Economy, Development, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Natural Resource Extraction, Post-Colonial Africa, Comparative & Historical Methods

What are the origins of the term OkBoomer? Does this generational outcry stem from a reality in which discourse is controlled by youth due to the prevalence of social media, or is there a materialist socio economic basis to this framing that attempts to lay generational blame for our current reality on a certain cohort? Are there any political utilities to using generational analysis to shape political forecasting? What can we learn from such discourse? Should it be abandoned?

Jason Mueller

Global Political Economy; Cultural Political Economy, Development, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Natural Resource Extraction, Post-Colonial Africa, Comparative & Historical Methods

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