Growing Up and Getting By
International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times
This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.
Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.
It looks at the impact of neoliberalism, austerity and global economic crisis, evidencing the multiple harms and inequalities caused. It also examines the different ways that children, young people and families ‘get by’ under these challenging circumstances, showing how they care for one another and envisage more hopeful socio-political futures.
John Horton is Professor in the Faculty of Health, Education & Society at the University of Northampton.
Helena Pimlott-Wilson is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University.
Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester.
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