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

Description

A comprehensive edited collection exploring the transformative impacts of austerity, economic crisis and neoliberalism for children, young people and adults. This book gives voice to children, young people and families at the sharp end of contemporary processes of neoliberalism, austerity and crises in diverse global contexts. Bringing together new, multi-disciplinary research, it explores how children, young people and families experience and cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. It looks at how contemporary contexts of neoliberalism, austerity and economic crisis impact upon children, young people and families, evidencing the multiple harms and inequalities caused by these processes. Examining the ways that children, young people and families 'get by' under these challenging circumstances, it shows how they care for one another and envisage more hopeful socio-political futures.

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.

"A fascinating collection that shows how the intersection of global and local forces exacerbates inequalities in the life chances of young people in a wide range of locations. A perfect illustration of why a geographical imagination still matters." Linda McDowell, University of Oxford "This is a timely, urgent and necessary book. Each chapter is a beautifully written gem. It will define the field for some time to come." Heather Montgomery, The Open University "A passionate reckoning with the global and intimate tolls of neoliberalism, austerity and economic crises for children and childhood. Across disparate geographies it reveals how the baleful ricochets of 'hard times' are met, known and challenged." Cindi Katz, City University of New York.