Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This collection examines therelationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFCenvironment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of youngpeople’s health and well-being. Contributors explore how in the second decadeof the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies and in thedeveloping economies of Asia, Africa and Central and South America continue tobe carrying a particularly heavy burden for many of the downstream effects ofthe 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis. The authors explore the ways in whichincreasing local and global inequalities often have profound consequences forlarge populations of young people. These consequences are not just related tomarginalisation from education, training and work. They also include obstaclesto their active participation in the civic life of their communities, to theirtransitions, to their sense of belonging. The book examines the choices thatare made, or not made by governments, businesses and individuals in relationto young people’s education, training, work, health and well-being,sexualities, diets and bodies, in the context of a crisis of neoliberalism andof austerity.
