Growing up and getting by : international perspectives on childhood and youth in hard times / edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall.

Date:
2021
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Description

This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.

Publication/Creation

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2021.

Physical description

xv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Part 1. Transformations : Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city / Eric Larsson and Aki Bengtsson -- Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? / Dena Aufseeser -- Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality / Jonghee Lee-Caldararo -- 'Live like a college student': student loan debt and the college experience / Denise Goerisch -- 'Everywhere feels like home': transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future / Michael Boampong -- Part 2. Intersections/inequalities : Negotiating social and familial norms: women's labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India / Heather Piggott -- Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu / Vicky Johnson and Andy West -- Infantilised parents and criminalised children: the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse / Aura Lehtonen and Jacob Breslow -- Learning to pay: the financialisation of childhood / Carl Walker, Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith -- Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino-Canadian families / Philip Kelly -- The undeserving poor and the happy poor: interrelations between the politics of global charity and austerity for young people in Britain / Ruth Cheung Judge -- Part 3. Futures : Looking towards the future: intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Colombians' lives / Sonja Marzi -- 'My aim is to take over Zane Lowe': young people's imagined futures at a community radio station (UK) / Catherine Wilkinson -- Dependent subjects and financial inclusion: launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan / Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang -- 'If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself': uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia / Caroline Day -- Conclusions and futures / Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    JQC.W
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ISBN

  • 9781447352891
  • 1447352890