Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather, on hiatus from Gossip Girl and Glee, discuss Skins Series 1, episodes 5 and 6, focusing on the 20th century social history of coming of age stories, E4 and Sixth Form, false autonomy, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, the social institutions of liberal democracies, realist and transnational views of the international system, and child brides.
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References
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Gossip, Standing in the Way of Control
Lucy Walker (dir.), Devil’s Playground
Steven Mazie, Consenting Adults? Amish Rumspringa and the Quandry of Exit in Liberalism
The Hold Steady, Heaven Is Whenever
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
John Gerard Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Christopher Morris, Four Lions