Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times
John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, and Sarah Hall
Abstract
Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this edited collection explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with diverse situations of poverty and precarity. It looks at the multiple impacts 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. The book has t ... More
Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this edited collection explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with diverse situations of poverty and precarity. It looks at the multiple impacts 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. The book has three thematic sections, exploring the transformative and uneven impacts of neoliberalism, austerity and economic crises for contemporary childhood and youth, intersecting inequalities, and children and young people’s negotiations of these profoundly challenging contexts.
Keywords:
Childhood,
Youth,
Neoliberalism,
Austerity,
Economic Crisis,
Inequality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447352891 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447352891.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John Horton, editor
University of Northampton
Helena Pimlott-Wilson, editor
Loughborough University
Sarah Hall, editor
University of Manchester
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