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Growing Up and Getting By
International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times
Edited by
John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall
First published in Great Britain in 2021 by
Policy Press, an imprint of
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Cover design: Robin Hawes
Front cover image: iStock/malerapaso
JH: For Bentley Library, for Northampton’s statutory youth service, for Northampton Women’s Aid, for Walsall Illuminations, for Northampton Meals on Wheels, for Northampton YMCA, for Croyland Sure Start, for Spencer Bridge food bank, for Ambrose, for Hero Ben, for Pelsall community centre, for my mother’s walking group …
HPW: For the children and young people getting by in hard times; the educators, youth workers and services wrestling the impacts of austerity; the communities and futures touched by inequalities.
SMH: For L, L & K, Lostock Youth Centre, Kids of Colour, RECLAIM, and all young people for whom austerity and hardship is their everyday normal …
Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
1Introduction
John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall
Part I Transformations
2Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city
Eric Larsson and Anki Bengtsson
3Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building?
Dena Aufseeser
4Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality
Jonghee Lee-Caldararo
5‘Live like a college student’: student loan debt and the college experience
Denise Goerisch
6‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future
Michael Boampong
Part II Intersections/inequalities
7Negotiating social and familial norms: women’s labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India
Heather Piggott
8Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu
Vicky Johnson and Andy West
9Infantilised parents and criminalised children: the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse
Aura Lehtonen and Jacob Breslow
10Learning to pay: the financialisation of childhood
Carl Walker, Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith
11Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino-Canadian families
Philip Kelly
12The 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
13Looking towards the future: intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Colombians’ lives
Sonja Marzi
14‘My aim is to take over Zane Lowe’: young people’s imagined futures at a community radio station
Catherine Wilkinson
15Dependent subjects and financial inclusion: launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan
Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang
16‘If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself’: uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia
Caroline Day
17Conclusions and futures
Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton
Index
Figures
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2.2Norra Real and Viktor Rydbergs gymnasium Odenplan