1st Edition
Youth Futures and Precarious Urbanism Education, Skills, and Employment in India
Introduction: urban transformations, youth aspirations, and education in India
Manisha Priyam, Mona G. Mehta and Divya Vaid
1. The ‘wall’: reflections on youth aspiration, education and social mobility in India
John Harriss
2. The limits of recovery: coming of age, aspirations and (im)mobility among displaced Pandit youth in Jammu
Ankur Datta
3. ‘Upgrading’ in precarious times: social mobility, skills and entrepreneurship among pastoralist youth in urbanising Gujarat
Mona G. Mehta
4. Shifting ruralities: a case study of higher education, tourism and youth in Banjar sub-district, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
Diya Mehra
5. Land dispossession, aspirational asymmetries and dilemmas of the rural youth
Radhika Kumar
6. Bounded aspirations and youth capacity: interrogating public higher education in North India
Manisha Priyam
7. Caste, gig-economy, and youth: the resurgence of a new age caste politics in urban Gujarat
Dyotana Banerjee
8. Fragmentation, diversity, and inequality: the city and everyday youth culture
Shailendra Kharat and Anagha Tambe
9. “If not work, then what?”: work, ambition, and satisfaction among young women in urban India
Divya Vaid
Biography
Manisha Priyam is Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia; Professor at National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India; and has academic writings and research on themes of Education Policy Reforms and Youth Lives.
Mona G. Mehta is Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India, and researches the cultural politics of urban transformations.
Divya Vaid is Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and studies social mobility and social inequalities from both macro and micro perspectives.
