Financialization & Student Anxiety
Various explanations have been offered for what\u2019s been called an anxiety epidemic among university students, but Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou believes a crucial causal factor is financialization, the way the financial sector and its logic has permeated our social, economic, and individual lives. He sees signs of optimism in the proliferation of student mobilizations around the issue of anxiety.\nMax Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, \u201cAn \u2018Anxiety Epidemic\u2019 in the Financialized University: Critical Questions and Unexpected Resistance\u201d Cultural Politics\nAris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World University of Chicago Press, 2022\nThe post Financialization & Student Anxiety appeared first on KPFA.