In the 21st century myriad earth systems–atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land
systems, neo-Liberal capitalism–are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking …

Education is an important and defining element in young people's lives. When conceived
properly, it has the potential to transform opportunities and life chances. It hardly comes as …

This book seeks to rethink citizenship in relation to young people by examining it from civic
and political, cultural and economic perspectives. It illustrates how young people are …

While discourses that define and demarcate young people such that they become legitimate
targets of negative practices of marginalisation and exclusion have not disappeared, these …

ABSTRACT A key goal in youth studies is to gain holistic understandings of what it means to
be young. However, a significant impediment to achieving this has been the tendency of …

In the days, months and years after many of the major institutions of globalised and
financialised capitalism near froze, then went into meltdown in the later part of 2007 and the …

Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of
theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new'analytic of youth', one that posits …

Globally, youth are being called upon to help carry the burden of forging a political or 'civic
order that must be attuned as much to the evolving future whilst sustaining and adapting the …

Over the last few decades there has been growing interest in youth participation, at policy
level and in research. Generally, this is attributed to growing public concern regarding the …

This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing
changes in the social construction of 'youth'within a more general story of the rise and fall of …