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Book SynopsisThis collections showcases contemporary research on multiple youth deprivation of personal isolation, social hardship, gender and ethnic discrimination and social stigma, drawing on findings of empirical studies that seek to explore the critical intersections of social class, gender and ethnic identities.
Trade Review“This book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly growing scholarly field exploring the issues and processes of marginalisation, poverty, and exclusion in relation to children and young people – as well as to childhood and youth as concepts, categories, and life stages.” Children’s Geographies
"This timely contribution to debates around youth austerity in Britain is a must read for students or academics concerned with how youth is understood and lived in contemporary society" Lisa Russell, University of Huddersfield
"Brings new theoretical and empirical insights into the analysis of youth marginality…. provides a critical voice around the concept of `marginality’ creating innovative and radical alternative understandings of the ways it operates…. A must read for scholars and students interested in youth sociology and youth policy" Alan France, University of Auckland
Table of ContentsForeword by Robert MacDonald; Part One: Youth Policy, Pariahs and Poverty: Critically Theorising Young Adult Marginality: historical and contemporary perspectives ~ Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers; Broken Society, Anti-social contracts, Failing State? Rethinking Youth Marginality ~ Peter Squires; Youth poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy; Routine sanctions, humiliation and human struggle: qualitative biographies of young people’s experience of live marginality ~ Linda Brooks; Normalisation of Youth Austerity Through Entertainment: critically addressing media representations of youth marginality in Britain ~ Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers; Part two: Intersections of Youth Marginality: class, gender, ethnicity and education; Pramface Girls? Early motherhood, marginalisation and the management of stigma ~ Mary Jane Kehily; Leisure lives on the margins: (Re)Imagining youth in Glasgow East End ~ Batchelor, S., Whittaker, L., Fraser, A. and Ling, L.; Asylum Rejected: “Appeals rights exhausted” care leavers facing return and marginality ~ Kim Robinson and Lucy Williams; Responses to the marginalisation of Roma young people in education ~ Jenny van Krieken Robson; Apprentice or Student as alternatives to marginalisation ~ Patrick Ainley; A School for our Community: critically assessing discourses of marginality in the establishment of a Free School ~ Claire Tupling; The Marginalisation of Care: Young Care Leavers’ Experiences of Professional Relationships ~ Emma Davidson and Lisa Whittaker; Part Three: Resistance and Ethnography; [B]othered Youth: Stop and search, marginalisation and the policing of belonging ~ Seán F. Murphy; On the Margins: the last place to rebel? Understanding young people’s resistance to social conformity ~ Jane McKay and Frances Atherton; ‘Binge’ drinking devils and moral marginality: young people’s calculated hedonism in the Canterbury night-time economy ~ Robert McPherson; The New Spectral Army: Biography and youth poverty on Teesside’s deprived estates ~ Anthony Ruddy; Conclusions: Advanced Youth Marginality Post Brexit ~ Ruth Rogers and Shane Blackman.
