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 1Jenny ChestersPART I YOUTH POLICIES AND PARTICIPATION1 Youth policies in Europe: logics and actors in the field 15Valentina Cuzzocrea2 The impact of post-industrialisation and neoliberal policies oneducation and youth employment 30Jenny Chesters3 Participation in transition. Youth and the reinvention of politics 40Luca RaffiniPART II MOBILITY AND BELONGING4 The usefulness of the concept of belonging in youth transitions 55Hernan Cuervo and Charlotte McPherson5 Mobility in youth transitions at the start of 21st century – fromconsuming mobility to im/mobile futures? 67Ewa Krzaklewska6 Contested places: daily struggles to belong among disadvantaged youthin Latin America 79María Cristina Bayón and Gonzalo A. Saraví7 Belonging and participation: perspectives of youth from socio-cultural margins 92Päivi Armila and Ari SiveniusPART III LIFE COURSE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS8 Changes in the conceptualization of the life course 104Harry Blatterer9 Global perspectives on youth and intergenerational relations in the 21st century 115Cécile Van de Velde10 Transitions in the context of intergenerational relations 129Sanna AaltonenPART IV GENDERED TRANSITIONS11 Gendering transitions: future directions and intersectional approaches 140Anita Harris and Sherene Idriss12 Gender and sexuality in the political experience of young people in Italy 153Arianna Mainardi and Stefania Voli13 Youth and gender: women’s paid and unpaid work trajectories. Thecase of Argentina 164Milena Arancibia, Ana Miranda and Nina ScopinaroPART V YOUTH PRECARIOUSNESS AND MARGINALISATION14 Resituating youth precariousness in the time of the pandemic 178Emiliana Armano and Fabio Gaspani15 Youth marginalisation in South Africa since democracy 190David Everatt16 Changing policies, durable inequalities: youth flows and transitions inthe Brazilian labour market 204Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Alvaro Augusto Comin, Carlos Henrique LeiteCorseuil, Murillo Marschner and Maíra Penna FrancaPART VI YOUTH CULTURES17 Changes in youth cultures and lifestyles: drivers of change in youth transitions 225Carles Feixa18 Uncommon biographies: how social media provides young people withan experiential realm 237Kostas Theodoridis and Steven Miles19 Youth, music and identity in a post-digital world 250Andy Bennett and Daniel BennettPART VII HEALTH AND WELLBEING20 Re-thinking resilience in transitional times 260Helen Cahill21 A livelihood resilience perspective on generations in transition 272Johanna Wyn and Jun Fu22 Mental health and wellbeing under transformation of the transitionprocess in Japan 285Tomohiko Asano

‘This is a wide-ranging, topical, and internationally relevant addition to our research literature on youth, young adulthood and youth transitions. It includes chapters from leading scholars in the field and new insights from youth research in over a dozen countries, including perspectives from the Global South.’