1st Edition
Youth and the Politics of the Present Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
A complex uncertainty: young people in the riddle of the present
Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini
Part I: Complexity
1. Learning (not) to labour: how middle-class young adults look for creative jobs in a precarious time in Italy
Lorenzo Domaneschi
2. Negotiating reality through the prosumption of the 'unreal' self: young people’s identities in an age of economic precarity
Konstantinos Theodoridis, Steven Miles and Kevin Albertson
3. ‘Flexi-lives’: facing the mobility imperative
Valentina Cuzzocrea
Part II: Uncertainty
4. Fragile transitions from education to employment: youth, gender and migrant status in the EU
Çetin Çelik, Fatoş Gökşen, Alpay Filiztekin, İbrahim Öker and Mark Smith
5. Precarious and creative: youth facing uncertainty in the labour market
Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Moiso and Marge Unt
6. Youth and precariousness in Spain: beyond a waiting time
Benjamín Tejerina
7. The myth of flexibility: young adults’ expectations of work in the digital economy in Milan
Alessandro Gandini and Luisa Leonini
8. Uncertainty management strategies in the process of identity formation of Polish young adults
Monika Banaś
Part III: Involvement
9. Young women of Muslim background in France and Britain: personal and public projects
Danièle Joly
10. Occupying the city: from social housing to the theatre
Antimo Luigi Farro and Simone Maddanu
11. 'I would rather choose a mixed school': young people’s secondary school choice in a low-income, multi-ethnic neighbourhood
Kirsten Visser
12. Our Nation’s Future: youth visions of a post-Brexit Britain
Marco Antonsich, Panagiota Sotiropoulou, Leila Wilmers, Cuomu Zhaxi and Sophie-Louise Hyde
Biography
Enzo Colombo is a Professor of Sociology and Culture at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.
Paola Rebughini is Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.
