Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope brings together contributions from
international youth studies experts who ask how young people and institutions are
responding to high levels of unemployment, student debt, housing costs that lock many out
of home ownership, and the challenge to find meaningful modes of participation in neo-
liberal social contexts. Contributors including Henry Giroux, Anita Harris and Judith Bessant,
draw on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical work to identify and debate …

Nearing the end of the second decade of the 21st century millions of young people around
the globe are marginalised in educational, cultural, social, economic and political contexts
that are local and global; that are characterised by increasing wealth and poverty, and a
widening gap between them; by the remaking of the markers of marginalisation in which
some forms appear to wane while new forms seem to emerge; by global ruptures that are
marked by austerity, recession and the remaking of the welfare state in the aftermath of the …