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Youth and the Politics of the Present Youth and the Politics of the Present Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering their future. Containing a wide range of empirical and comparative examples from across Europe, this title highlights how young adults are trying to implement new forms of understanding, interpretation and action to cope with unprecedented situations; developing new forms of relationships, identifications and belonging while they experience new and unprecedented forms of inclusion and exclusion. Grounding this exploration is the suggestion that careful observations of the everyday practices of young adults can be an excellent vantage point to grasp how and in what direction the future of contemporary Western societies is heading. Offering an original and provocative investigation, Youth and the Politics of the Present will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Globalization Studies, Migration Studies, Gender Studies and Social Policy. 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. Routledge Advances in Sociology 259 Comparative Sociology of Examinations Edited by Fumiya Onaka 260 The Human Rights City New York, San Francisco, Barcelona Michele Grigolo 261 Horizontal Europeanisation The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe Edited by Prof. Dr. Martin Heindenreich 262 The Marginalized in Genocide Narratives Giorgia Donà 263 The Social Structures of Global Academia Edited by Fabian Cannizzo and Nick Osbaldiston 264 Citizenship in the Latin American Upper and Middle Classes Ethnographic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Consumption Edited by Fabian Cannizzo and Nick Osbaldiston 265 Youth and the Politics of the Present Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence Edited by Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Sociology/book-series/SE0511 Youth and the Politics of the Present Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence Edited by Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-15099-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-19826-7 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors ix A complex uncertainty: young people in the riddle of the present 1 ENZO COLOMBO AND PAOLA REBUGHINI PART I Complexity 17 1 Learning (not) to labour: how middle-class young adults look for creative jobs in a precarious time in Italy 19 LORENZO DOMANESCHI 2 Negotiating reality through the prosumption of the ‘unreal’ self: young people’s identities in an age of economic precarity 32 KONSTANTINOS THEODORIDIS, STEVEN MILES AND KEVIN ALBERTSON 3 ‘Flexi-lives’: facing the mobility imperative 44 VALENTINA CUZZOCREA PART II Uncertainty 57 4 Fragile transitions from education to employment: youth, gender and migrant status in the EU 59 ÇETIN ÇELIK, FATOŞ GÖKŞEN, ALPAY FILIZTEKIN, İBRAHIM ÖKER AND MARK SMITH vi Contents 5 Precarious and creative: youth facing uncertainty in the labour market 75 SONIA BERTOLINI, VALENTINA MOISO AND MARGE UNT 6 Youth and precariousness in Spain: beyond a waiting time 88 BENJAMÍN TEJERINA 7 The myth of flexibility: young adults’ expectations of work in the digital economy in Milan 101 ALESSANDRO GANDINI AND LUISA LEONINI 8 Uncertainty management strategies in the process of identity formation of Polish young adults 113 MONIKA BANAŚ PART III Involvement 127 9 Young women of Muslim background in France and Britain: personal and public projects 129 DANIÈLE JOLY 10 Occupying the city: from social housing to the theatre 141 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 153 KIRSTEN VISSER 12 Our Nation’s Future: youth visions of a post-Brexit Britain 165 MARCO ANTONSICH, PANAGIOTA SOTIROPOULOU, LEILA WILMERS, CUOMU ZHAXI AND SOPHIE-LOUISE HYDE Index 181 Figures 4.1 Predicted relative wage differences across vulnerable groups relative to adult males (students excluded) 70 5.1 Conceptual map 78 7.1 What work do you aspire to do? 107 7.2 How would you describe work today? 109 12.1 Bloodshot 169 12.2 As we leave the EU 171 12.3 Bus stop 171 12.4 Please hold the door 173 12.5 May’s force is against you 174 12.6 Conversation expectation 176 Tables 4.1 Estimation of employment status, relative risk rates (excludes students) 64 4.2 Determinants of occupation status across vulnerabilities (students excluded) 69 6.1 List of individual interviews and focus group 92 10.1 Essentials of occupations 148 Contributors Kevin Albertson is Professor at The Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests range from business and social forecasting to: the frontiers-zone crisis; social innovation; crime; and the application of classical and behavioural economics to socio-political issues. Marco Antonsich is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University. His research interests revolve around nation and migration, focus- ing particularly on Italy. Among his publications are Everyday Nationhood (Palgrave, 2017) and Governing through Diversity (Palgrave, 2015) Monika Banaś is Associated Professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cra- cow. Her research interests focus on theory of culture, mutual dependences of economy and culture, migration trends in contemporary societies, welfare state and crisis. She holds a PhD in American studies and a post-doctoral degree (doctor habilitus) in political science with a specialisation on social cohesion and cultural integration of multi-ethnic societies. Currently she is involved in an individual project dedicated to political culture in Poland and Scandinavia in comparative perspective. Sonia Bertolini is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches sociology of work. Her research interests concern labour market flexibilisation; youth labour market entry; female labour market participa- tion, labour market flexibilisation and transition to adult life; and sociology of professions. Among her publications are Youth on Globalised Labour Mar- ket. Rising Uncertainty and its Effects on Early Employment and Family Lives in Europe (Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, Germany, and Farmington Hills, United States, 2011; edited with H. P. Blossfeld and D. Hofäcker), and Flessibilmente giovani: percorsi di lavoro e transizioni alla vita adulta nel nuovo mercato del lavoro (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012). Çetin Çelik is Associate Professor at Koç University, Istanbul. His research inter- ests deal with different forms of educational inequalities within the context of migration. He is author of The Process of Leaving School and Meaning x Contributors of Schooling: The Case of Turkish School Leavers in Germany (University of Bremen, 2012). His recent research explores links between identity forma- tion and educational achievement of the second-generation migrant youth and broader social policies and institutional regulations in Turkey and Germany. Enzo Colombo is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Intercultural Relations at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. His research interests lie in everyday multiculturalism, active citizenship, cul- tural aspects of the globalisation process, young adults’ identification and civic participation. He has published in top peer-reviewed journals. He is author of Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World: A Generational Experience (Palgrave, 2012; with P. Rebughini). Valentina Cuzzocrea (MA and PhD, Essex) is Senior Assistant Professor in Soci- ology at the University of Cagliari, Italy, where she teaches (advanced) theory and methods of social research, and visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology,
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