Youth Marginality in Britain : : Contemporary Studies of Austerity / / ed. by Shane Blackman, Ruth Rogers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Ainley, Patrick,; Atherton, Frances,; Batchelor, Susan,; Blackman, Shane,; Brooks, Linda,; Davidson, Emma,; Fahmy, Eldin,; Fraser, Alistair,; Goldsmith, Carlie,; Kehily, Mary Jane,; Ling, Leona Li Ngai,; MacDonald, Robert,; McKay, Jane,; McPherson, Robert,; Murphy, Seán F.,; Robinson, Kim,; Robson, Jenny van Krieken,; Rogers, Ruth,; Ruddy, Anthony,; Squires, Peter,; Tupling, Claire,; Whittaker, Lisa,; Williams, Lucy,
• HerausgeberIn: Blackman, Shane,; Rogers, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal’ have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers a new perspective by promoting young people’s voices and understanding the agency behind their actions. It explores different forms of social marginalisation within media, culture and society, focusing on how young people experience social discrimination at a personal and collective level. This collection from a wide range of expert contributors showcases contemporary research on multiple youth deprivation of personal isolation, social hardship, gender and ethnic discrimination and social stigma. With a foreword from Robert MacDonald, it explores the intersection of race, gender, class, asylum seeker status and care leavers in Britain, placing them in the broader context of austerity, poverty and inequality to highlight both change and continuity within young people’s social and cultural identities. This timely contribution to debates concerning youth austerity in Britain is suitable for students across youth studies, sociology, education, criminology, youth work and social policy.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Youth policy, pariahs and poverty -- Critically theorising young adult marginality: historical and contemporary perspectives -- Broken society, anti-social contracts, failing state? Rethinking youth marginality -- Youth poverty and social exclusion in the UK -- Routine sanctions, humiliation and human struggle: qualitative biographies of young people’s experience of live marginality -- Normalisation of youth austerity through entertainment: critically addressing media representations of youth marginality in Britain -- Intersections of youth marginality: class, gender, ethnicity and education -- Pramface girls? Early motherhood, marginalisation and the management of stigma -- Leisure lives on the margins: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow’s East End -- Asylum rejected: ‘appeal rights exhausted’ Afghan care leavers facing return -- Responses to the marginalisation of Roma young people in education in an age of austerity in the United Kingdom -- Apprentice or student as alternatives to marginalisation? -- A school for our community: critically assessing discourses of marginality in the establishment of a free school -- The marginalisation of care: young care leavers’ experiences of professional relationships -- Resistance and ethnography -- [B]othered Youth: marginalisation, stop and search and the policing of belonging -- On the margins: the last place to rebel? Understanding young people’s resistance to social conformity -- ‘Binge’ drinking devils and moral marginality: young people’s calculated hedonism in the Canterbury night-time economy -- The new ‘spectral army’: biography and youth poverty on Teesside’s deprived estates -- Conclusions: advanced youth marginality post-Brexit -- Index