Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood

Edited by Jenny Chesters, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

Contents:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood 1
Jenny Chesters

PART I YOUTH POLICIES AND PARTICIPATION
1 Youth policies in Europe: logics and actors in the field 15
Valentina Cuzzocrea
2 The impact of post-industrialisation and neoliberal policies on
education and youth employment 30
Jenny Chesters
3 Participation in transition. Youth and the reinvention of politics 40
Luca Raffini

PART II MOBILITY AND BELONGING
4 The usefulness of the concept of belonging in youth transitions 55
Hernan Cuervo and Charlotte McPherson
5 Mobility in youth transitions at the start of 21st century – from
consuming mobility to im/mobile futures? 67
Ewa Krzaklewska
6 Contested places: daily struggles to belong among disadvantaged youth
in Latin America 79
María Cristina Bayón and Gonzalo A. Saraví
7 Belonging and participation: perspectives of youth from socio-cultural margins 92
Päivi Armila and Ari Sivenius

PART III LIFE COURSE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS
8 Changes in the conceptualization of the life course 104
Harry Blatterer
9 Global perspectives on youth and intergenerational relations in the 21st century 115
Cécile Van de Velde
10 Transitions in the context of intergenerational relations 129
Sanna Aaltonen

PART IV GENDERED TRANSITIONS
11 Gendering transitions: future directions and intersectional approaches 140
Anita Harris and Sherene Idriss
12 Gender and sexuality in the political experience of young people in Italy 153
Arianna Mainardi and Stefania Voli
13 Youth and gender: women’s paid and unpaid work trajectories. The
case of Argentina 164
Milena Arancibia, Ana Miranda and Nina Scopinaro

PART V YOUTH PRECARIOUSNESS AND MARGINALISATION
14 Resituating youth precariousness in the time of the pandemic 178
Emiliana Armano and Fabio Gaspani
15 Youth marginalisation in South Africa since democracy 190
David Everatt
16 Changing policies, durable inequalities: youth flows and transitions in
the Brazilian labour market 204
Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Alvaro Augusto Comin, Carlos Henrique Leite
Corseuil, Murillo Marschner and Maíra Penna Franca

PART VI YOUTH CULTURES
17 Changes in youth cultures and lifestyles: drivers of change in youth transitions 225
Carles Feixa
18 Uncommon biographies: how social media provides young people with
an experiential realm 237
Kostas Theodoridis and Steven Miles
19 Youth, music and identity in a post-digital world 250
Andy Bennett and Daniel Bennett

PART VII HEALTH AND WELLBEING
20 Re-thinking resilience in transitional times 260
Helen Cahill
21 A livelihood resilience perspective on generations in transition 272
Johanna Wyn and Jun Fu
22 Mental health and wellbeing under transformation of the transition
process in Japan 285
Tomohiko Asano