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Book SynopsisThis book addresses important questions about tackling today's epidemic of loneliness among young people, exploring experiences of loneliness in early life and considering how social conditions of austerity, precarity, inequality and competitive pressures to succeed can dramatically influence these feelings.
Table of ContentsAnimate, attune, amplify Finding oneself a loneliness agenda I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person led research agenda PART I: The social conditions of loneliness Loneliness and poverty Being an outsider The education system, aspiration and loneliness PART II: The experience of loneliness Transitions Loss, grief and loneliness Being left out Online spaces and connection PART III: Building friendship and connection Asking for help and offering connection Youth work as a method Creativity and solidarity as method: the example of Missing and other stories New ways for thinking and feeling loneliness
