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]
Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula: Changes and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Emanuela Buscemi, Ildiko Kaposi
May 30, 2022
Focusing on the struggles of youth in the Arabian Gulf to find their place in their encounters with modernity, Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula explores how global forces are reshaping everyday cultural experiences in authoritarian societies. A deeper understanding of Gulf youth ...
Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Valentina Cuzzocrea, Barbara Giovanna Bello, Yuri Kazepov
December 13, 2021
Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical material providing multiple answers to this question whilst investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today.By bringing together a variety of approaches ...
Complexities of Researching with Young People
1st Edition
Edited
By Paulina Billett, Matt Hart, Dona Martin
June 30, 2021
Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on ‘how to’ conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context.In ...
Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China
1st Edition
By Fengshu Liu
June 30, 2021
This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations. The analysis draws on life-history interviews with ...
Brazilian Youth: Global Trends and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Cláudia Pereira
April 01, 2021
The collection brings together texts of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to themes related to studies of youth cultures: social interactions, subcultures, identities and belonging, pop culture, social movements, migration, consumption and materialities, generational exchanges, media ...
Youth, Risk, Routine: A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives
1st Edition
By Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Signe Ravn
March 31, 2021
Young people’s lives continue to be the topic of public scrutiny and recurring ‘moral panics’. Smoking cannabis, speeding, and engaging in street-level fights are depicted as activities based on ‘poor choices’ or simple hedonism, putting young people’s futures at risk. Based on comprehensive, ...
Rethinking Young People’s Marginalisation: Beyond neo-Liberal Futures?
1st Edition
By Peter Kelly, Perri Campbell, Luke Howie
June 30, 2020
In the 21st century myriad earth systems – atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism – are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking diverse and multiple forms, they have diverse and multiple consequences and are evidenced in such things as war, everyday ...
Youth in the Digital Age: Paradox, Promise, Predicament
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Tilleczek, Valerie Campbell
June 30, 2020
Young people spend a significant amount of time with technology, particularly digital and social media. How do they experience and cope with the many influences of digital media in their lives? What are the main challenges and opportunities they navigate in living online? Youth in the Digital Age ...
Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience: Adults Understanding Young People
1st Edition
Edited
By Liam Grealy, Catherine Driscoll, Anna Hickey-Moody
February 25, 2020
How do adults understand youth? How do their conceptions inform interventions into young lives or involve young people’s experiences? This volume tackles these questions by exploring adults’ ideas about youth. Specifically, Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience examines the four titular ...
Spaces of Youth: Work, Citizenship and Culture in a Global Context
1st Edition
By David Farrugia
June 04, 2019
Contemporary young people are situated within a complex and disorienting set of social changes that are reshaping how youth is constructed, governed and experienced across the globe. Historically, it has been taken for granted that youth primarily concerns time, especially with regards to personal ...
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession: Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Irwin, Ann Nilsen
June 04, 2019
Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish and as the welfare state is pulled back, pathways to adulthood change and ...
Young People in the Labour Market: Past, Present, Future
1st Edition
By Andy Furlong, John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor, Sarah Hadfield, Stuart Hall, Kevin Lowden, Réka Plugor
June 04, 2019
Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a new employment landscape in which traditional securities have been progressively removed. ...