Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity. It looks at the impact of neoliberalism, austerity and global economic crisis, evidencing the multiple harms and inequalities caused. It also examines the different ways that children, young people and families ‘get by’ under these challenging circumstances, showing how they care for one another and envisage more hopeful socio-political futures.

Table of Contents:
Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall PART I: Transformations Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city ~ Eric Larsson and Anki 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 II: 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 III: 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: growing up and getting by ~ Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton

About the Author :
John Horton is Professor in the Faculty of Health, Education & Society at the University of Northampton. Helena Pimlott-Wilson is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University. Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester.