Growing Up and Getting By

Section 1: Introduction;

Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall;

Section 2: Transformations;

Tackling family poverty: in the best interests of children? ~ John McKendrick;

Spatial entitlement in an era of neo-liberal educational marketization – Inner city elite schools and the relationally defined counterparts (Sweden) ~ Eric Larsson and Elisabeth Hultqvist;

Seasonal migration to Lima: Exclusion and opportunity? ~ Dena Aufseeser;

Night-time geography and neoliberalism: a study of sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour-cafés in Seoul (South Korea) ~ Jonghee Lee;

‘Live like a college student’: Student Loan Debt and the College Experience (USA) ~ Denise Goersich;

Section 3: Intersections/Inequalities;

State, economic crises and the necessity of social reproduction: negotiated and constrained interdependencies ~ Michael Boampong;

Negotiating Social and Familial Norms: Women's Labour Experiences in Rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott;

Changing Definitions of (Child) Poverty: The Contested Spaces of Childhood and the Family In UK Austerity Politics ~ Jacob Breslow and Aura Lehtonen;

Learning to Pay: the financialization of childhood;

Masculinity and Intergenerational Mobility in Recessionary Times: The Case of Filipino-Canadian Male Youth Outcomes ~ Philip Kelly;

Relational ecologies of care-experienced youth and the politicised ‘border’ of successful and failed transitions: the policy omnipresence of reaching ‘adult independence’ (UK and Australia) ~ Caroline Cresswell;

Section 4: Futures;

Looking Towards the Future: Young Colombians’ Aspirations and Social Mobility Boundaries ~ Sonja Marzi;

“My aim is to take over Zane Lowe”: Young People’s Imagined Futures at a Community Radio Station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson;

Self-cultivating financial citizenship: A case of a campus-based credit union movement in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Fei and Chiung-wen Chang;

Section 5 – Concluding reflections;

Reflections ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall.