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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horton, John (Senior lecturer in geography) (Editor ), Pimlott-Wilson, Helena (Editor ), Hall, Sarah Marie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2021.
Temas:
Poor children.
Children > Social conditions.
Youth > Social conditions.
Poor families.
Enfants pauvres.
Enfants > Conditions sociales.
Jeunesse > Conditions sociales.
Familles pauvres.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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