Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
About the Book Series
The Youth, Young Adulthood and Society series approaches youth as a distinct area, bringing together social scientists from many disciplines to present cutting-edge research monographs and collections on young people in societies around the world today. The books present original, exciting research, with strongly theoretically- and empirically-grounded analysis, advancing the field of youth studies. Originally set up and edited by Andy Furlong, the series presents interdisciplinary and truly international, comparative research monographs.
Contacts for the series:
Professor Tracy Shildrick: [email protected]
Professor John Goodwin: [email protected]
Professor Henrietta O'Connor: [email protected]
Emily Briggs at Routledge: [email protected]
Youth, Masculinity and the Labour Market: Precarious Transitions in Post-Industrial Britain
1st Edition
By James Kartal Gülgeçer
February 13, 2026
This book examines young men’s precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity. Using a mixed-methods approach, Gülgeçer draws on survey and interview data to explore young men’s ...
Young People and Uncertain Futures?: A Genealogy of Young People's Enterprise and Aspiration, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Education for Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By James Goring, Peter Kelly
August 31, 2025
Drawing on Foucault’s ‘genealogical ethos’ and his work on power/knowledge/subjects, this book analyses the ways in which neo-liberal education apparatuses in Australia and other high-income economies frame the problem of young people and uncertain futures. The book critically examines the ...
Young People, Alcohol, and Risk: A Culture of Caution
1st Edition
By Amy Pennay, Gabriel Caluzzi, Laura Fenton, John Holmes, Michael Livingston, Jonas Raninen, Jukka Törrönen
April 29, 2025
Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people’s drinking in high- income countries. Since the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people has declined significantly in most high- income countries. ...
Central American Young People Migration: Coloniality and Epistemologies of the South
1st Edition
By Henry Parada, Veronica Escobar Olivo, Kevin Cruz
March 13, 2025
This book examines the social construction and representation of ‘youth on the move’ in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South. The ...
Neurodivergent Youthhoods: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic
1st Edition
By Shelda-Jane Smith
November 29, 2024
Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare becomes an increasing fixture within paediatric and adolescent healthcare, this book captures how normative, biomedical and psychologised understandings ...
Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society: Reclaiming the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Päivi Honkatukia, Tiina Rättilä
November 28, 2024
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in...
Young EU Migrants in London in the Transition to Brexit
1st Edition
By Aija Lulle, Laura Moroşanu, Russell King
May 27, 2024
London has long been a magnet for migrants, millions of whom have been attracted by its economic, educational and cultural roles as a truly global city. This book examines recent European migration to the London region through the narrated experiences of a large number of younger migrants from ‘old...
Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Tilleczek, Deborah MacDonald
May 27, 2024
This book explores ways in which education supports or negates the wellbeing and rights of young people in or from the Americas. It shows how young people diagnose problems and propose important new directions for education. A collective chronicle from researchers working alongside young people in ...
Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjørn Schiermer, Ben Gook, Valentina Cuzzocrea
May 31, 2023
This volume seeks to address what its contributors take to be an important lacuna in youth cultural research: a lack of interest in the phenomenon of collectivity and collective aspects of youth culture. It gathers scholars from diverse research backgrounds – ranging from contemporary subculture ...
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives: Theory, Methods and Agendas
1st Edition
Edited
By Magda Nico, Ana Caetano
January 09, 2023
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely ...
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing ‘Transgressive’ Identities in Digital Social Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Hoskins, Carlo Genova, Nic Crowe
December 30, 2022
This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how young peoples’ subcultures arise online and they are...
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment: Personal, Social, and Political Effects
1st Edition
By Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini, Manlio Cinalli, Christian Lahusen, Simone Baglioni
August 01, 2022
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional ...