| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Growing up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Intriduction -- Introduction -- We wish this book was not necessary -- John's research: just getting on with austerities, or 'we're fucked'? -- Helena's research: neoliberal subjectivities in play, education and parenting -- Sarah's research: everyday austerities and the complicated business of care -- Hard times? Neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises |
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Children, young people and families in hard times -- Growing up and getting by: new perspectives on neoliberalisation, austerities and economic crises -- Postscript: childhood and youth in COVID- 19 times -- 1) How has COVID- 19 affected children and young people's everyday lives? -- 2) How are impacts of COVID- 19 intersecting with multiple inequalities and exclusions? -- 3) How are children and young people represented in media and policy discourses of COVID- 19? -- 4) How have neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises been compounded by COVID-19? |
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5) Do any aspects of childhood and youth in COVID- 19 times offer hope for more progressive and equitable futures? -- References -- Part I Transformations -- 2 Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city -- Introduction -- A transforming, urban educational market -- Inner-city schools: a short introduction -- Theory: for a relational understanding of educational marketisations -- Research methods -- A school situated in the 'right place' -- The strategic use of architecture and school buildings -- The construction of a historical legacy |
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Something new, something borrowed -- Getting a 'feeling' for the city -- Recognition and entitlement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? -- Introduction -- Context and research methods -- Social networks in the face of limited support -- Lack of opportunities -- Schooling and opportunities -- Changing contexts of poverty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality -- Introduction |
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Neoliberal governmentality -- The economic challenges of South Korean young adults -- Sleepless youth and their practices -- Night-time work/study -- Night-time sleep deprivation as ethical practices -- Working at cafés -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 'Live like a college student': student loan debt and the college experience -- Introduction -- Methods -- Geographies of student debt -- Brenda -- Lily -- Kyle -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 'Everywhere feels like home': transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future -- Introduction -- The neoliberal household -- Methods |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Poor children.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Youth -- Social conditions
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Poor families.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
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Children -- Social conditions
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Poor children
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Poor families
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Youth -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horton, John (Senior lecturer in geography), editor.
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Pimlott-Wilson, Helena, editor.
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Hall, Sarah Marie, editor.
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| ISBN |
1447352920 |
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9781447352945 |
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1447352947 |
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9781447352921 |
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