Growing Up and Getting By

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.

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