Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times
John Horton · Helena Pimlott-Wilson · Sarah Marie Hall
Apr 2021 · Policy Press
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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.
About the author
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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