{"id":374,"date":"2011-04-07T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:31:55","slug":"maria-kefalas-on-meth-and-young-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2011\/04\/07\/maria-kefalas-on-meth-and-young-adulthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Kefalas on Meth and Young Adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we talk about meth, Iowa and the dystopia of modern \u00a0young adulthood, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sju.edu\/academics\/cas\/sociology\/faculty\/mkefalas.html\">Maria Kefalas<\/a> from St. Joseph\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<p>Our discussion is centered on Dr. Kefala\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/winter-2011\/from-the-music-man-to-methland\/\">recent book review<\/a> in <em>Contexts<\/em> on Nick Redding\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.methlandbook.com\">Methland: the Life and Death of an America Small Town<\/a>. Because the content of Redding&#8217;s book pairs well with \u00a0Kefala&#8217;s own fieldwork in Iowa, \u00a0we discuss the premise that social \u00a0problems like the use of meth in rural America are really the &#8220;symptoms&#8221; of the gradual decline these communities have been experiencing in the wake of de-industrialization. \u00a0 Moreover, while issues of crime and drugs tend to be understood as urban issues, Kefalas argues that rural America is experiencing its own decline in term of the opportunities it can offer young people.  We conclude with Kefala\u2019s suggestion that we \u201cre-imagine\u201d young adulthood and the types of educational and training opportunities made available to young people in the new global economy.<\/p>\n<p>We also discuss our latest podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinsociology.com\">New Books in Sociology<\/a>, a joint venture between us here at The Society Pages and the <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\">New Books Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH22_Kefalas.mp3\">Download Office Hours #22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we talk about meth, Iowa and the dystopia of modern \u00a0young adulthood, with Maria Kefalas from St. Joseph\u2019s University. Our discussion is centered on Dr. Kefala\u2019s recent book review in Contexts on Nick Redding\u2019s Methland: the Life and Death of an America Small Town. Because the content of Redding&#8217;s book pairs well with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[124,134,13,129],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-crime","tag-geography","tag-inequality","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}