Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of Austerity

Published by Policy Press 2017

Youth Marginality in Britain

Contemporary Studies of Austerity

Edited by: Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447330530

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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.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of tables and figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Foreword Robert MacDonald Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Youth policy, pariahs and poverty
Critically theorising young adult marginality: historical and contemporary perspectives Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Broken society, anti-social contracts, failing state? Rethinking youth marginality Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Youth poverty and social exclusion in the UK Eldin Fahmy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Routine sanctions, humiliation and human struggle: qualitative biographies of young people’s experience of live marginality Linda Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Normalisation of youth austerity through entertainment: critically addressing media representations of youth marginality in Britain Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Intersections of youth marginality: class, gender, ethnicity and education
Pramface girls? Early motherhood, marginalisation and the management of stigma Mary Jane Kehily Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Leisure lives on the margins: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow’s East End Susan Batchelor, Lisa Whittaker, Alistair Fraser and Leona Li Ngai Ling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Asylum rejected: ‘appeal rights exhausted’ Afghan care leavers facing return Kim Robinson and Lucy Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Responses to the marginalisation of Roma young people in education in an age of austerity in the United Kingdom Jenny van Krieken Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Apprentice or student as alternatives to marginalisation? Patrick Ainley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
A school for our community: critically assessing discourses of marginality in the establishment of a free school Claire Tupling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
The marginalisation of care: young care leavers’ experiences of professional relationships Emma Davidson and Lisa Whittaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Resistance and ethnography
[B]othered Youth: marginalisation, stop and search and the policing of belonging Seán F. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
On the margins: the last place to rebel? Understanding young people’s resistance to social conformity Jane McKay and Frances Atherton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
‘Binge’ drinking devils and moral marginality: young people’s calculated hedonism in the Canterbury night-time economy Robert McPherson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
The new ‘spectral army’: biography and youth poverty on Teesside’s deprived estates Anthony Ruddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Conclusions: advanced youth marginality post-Brexit Ruth Rogers and Shane Blackman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Policy Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
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Published: June 28, 2017
ISBN: 9781447330530