Neoliberalism, Austerity, and the Moral Economies of Young People's Health and Well-Being

Peter Kelly is Director of the Centre for Education, Training and Work in the Asian Century, in the School of Education, RMIT University, Australia. Jo Pike is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Childhood at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Part I: After Neo-Liberalism? Re-thinking Choices, Responsibilities and Young People's Futures.- 1. Young People's Marginalisation: Unsettling What Agency and Structure Mean After Neo-Liberalism; Peter Kelly.- 2. 'Wear a necklace of h(r)ope side by side with me': Young people's neo-Liberal futures and popular culture as political action; Luke Howie and Perri Campbell.- 3. Youth, Health and Morality: Body Work and Health Assemblages; Julia Coffey.- 4. Get on Your Feet, Get Happy: Happiness and the Affective Governing of Young People in the Age of Austerity; Deirdre Duffy.- 5. Treading Water: The Roles and Possibilities of 'Adversity Capital' in Preparing Young People for Precarity; Lucas Walsh.- Part II: Young People, Austerity and the Moral Geographies of Disadvantage.- 6. Young People of the 'Austere Period': Mechanisms and Effects of Inequalities Over Time in Portugal; Magda Nico and Nuno de Almeida Alves.- 7. Childhood and Juvenile Obesity in Italy: Health Promotion in an Era of Austerity; Giuseppina Cersosimo and Maurizio Merico.- 8. Negotiating the Interface: The Complexities for Young People of Exercising Road Safety 'Responsibility' and 'Choice' on Melbourne's Fringe; Kerry Montero.- 9. Shame, Disgust and the Moral Economies of Young Women's Sexual Health in the North of England; Louise Laverty.- 10. We Need Child Poverty! Making Sense of Public Attitudes to Poverty in the Age of Austerity; John H. McKendrick.- 11. Morality, Austerity and the Complexities of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Young People in South Africa; Kelley Moult and Alexandra Muller.- Part III: Young People, Welfare States and Their Futures.- 12. Pre-assembling our Young: Points of Movement in Post-Austerity Ireland; Annelies Kamp.- 13. Austerity and the 'Workfare State': The Remaking and Reconfiguration of Citizenship for the Young in the Great Recession; Alan France.- 14. Bush Kinder: Thinking Differently About Privileged Spaces Through/With/In Children's Geographies; Barbara Chancellor and Marg Sellers.- 15. From Health to Hard Times: Fairness and Entitlement in School Food After Neoliberalism; Jo Pike.- 16. Waithood or Precariousness? Biographical Trajectories of Unemployed Graduate Activists in Morocco; Christoph H. Schwarz