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Youth Marginality in Britain : Contemporary Studies of Austerity by Shane Blackman (editor); Ruth Rogers (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The book critically engages with neo-liberal policies and media representations of youth austerity as a constructed social crisis but remaining the mechanism used by both government and media to exert control over young adults; It explores the diversity of intersections relating to youth marginality across social class, gender and racial boundaries; looking into contemporary theory of advanced youth marginality. It challenges the dominant notions of youth ‘underclass’ and marginalisation and the representation of ‘youth as trouble’ through participatory research methods to project young people’s ‘real’ experience and voice in spheres of leisure and recreation from street corners to open spaces in relation to surveillance and sanctions; It develops an understanding of the importance of personal, emotional, familial and collective experiences of poverty and austerity and the strategies of resistance and survival, or consent under social hardship and discrimination from the Police; It critically assesses the dynamics of social, cultural and educational policies in the shaping social life of young adults as refugees, looked after young people in Care, young mothers, working class youth

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Author

Shane Blackman (editor); Ruth Rogers (editor)

Publisher

Policy Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447330523

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences