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ch. 1. From Kevin 07 to Kevin 24/7 -- ch. 2. New work ethics and the self as enterprise -- ch. 3. After (a) method -- ch. 4. Michel Foucault and the care of a self -- ch. 5. Flexible capitalism and the Brazilianisation of work? -- ch. 6. The spirit of twenty-first century capitalism -- ch. 7. Better than sex, and toil and drudgery -- ch. 8. Stress and the edge of chaos -- ch. 9. The body, mind and soul of the self as enterprise -- ch. 10. 24/7 and the problem of work-life balance.

Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Is Neo-Liberal Capitalism Eating Itself or Its Young? -- Sell Everything! Save Yourselves! -- Austerity and Young People's Health and Well-Being -- Neo-Liberal Capitalism -- The Moral Economies of Young People's Health and Well-Being -- Part I: After Neo-Liberalism? Rethinking Choices, Responsibilities and Young People's Futures -- Part II: Young People, Austerity and the Moral Geographies of Disadvantage -- Part III: Young People, Welfare States and Their Futures -- References -- Part I: After Neo-Liberalism? Re-thinking Choices, Responsibilities and Young People's Futures -- 1: Young People's Marginalisation: Unsettling What Agency and Structure Mean After Neo-Liberalism -- Introduction: Young People's Marginalisation and a Post-GFC World -- After Neo-Liberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto and Framing the Crisis -- Structure and Agency and an Orthodoxy in Youth Studies -- References -- 2: 'Wear a Necklace of h(r)ope Side by Side with Me': Young People's Neo-Liberal Futures and Popular Culture as Political Action -- An Introduction: to the Risks of Neo-Liberalism -- Katniss Everdeen's Panem -- The Hanging Tree -- The Mockingjay -- Precariousness: Imagined and Unimaginable Futures -- How 'Generation K' Imagines the Future -- Conclusion: Do - Something -- References -- 3: Youth, Health and Morality: Body Work and Health Assemblages -- Introduction -- Health and Well-being as Moral Imperatives -- Health Assemblages and Affect -- Health as an Individual, Moralised Responsibility -- Health, Affect and Image -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Get on Your Feet, Get Happy: Happiness and the Affective Governing of Young People in the Age of Austerity -- Introduction -- Happiness and Governing -- Youth Well-being and the Affective Governmentality of Happiness -- The 'Promise' of Well-being

As the world's largest payments for environmental services program, China's Sloping Land Conversion Program has reforested vast areas of environmentally sensitive farmland since 1999 and provided subsidy payments to millions of poor farmers in mountainous western China. This dissertation analyzes the socio-economic effects of the program in Shaanxi Province.Chapter 1 examines the effects of enrollment in the Sloping Land Conversion Program on household labor market outcomes. It uses the exact timing of enrollment to identify a causal link between enrollment and non-farm employment, and finds that enrollment has a small but statistically significant positive effect on non-farm employment at the household level. The probability of an adult without non-farm employment beginning such employment in a particular year increases from 1.4% in years without new household enrollment to 2.1% in years with enrollment. This amounts to an increase of national labor supply of at least 600,000 individuals. The analysis measures enrollment in different ways to distinguish among competing channels of the effects of enrollment on employment, and finds that employment effects arise not from alleviating constraints, as other researchers have suggested, but rather from simple farm to non-farm labor substitution.Chapter 2 focuses on problems in the implementation of the program, including farmers not receiving subsidy payments to which they are entitled, and the over-reporting of areas eligible for subsidies on the part of local governments. On average, villages reported 72% more area enrolled in the program than was actually the case, and 15% of enrolled farmers received at least a portion of the subsidies to which they were entitled late or not at all. The chapter finds that both misaligned incentives and low managerial ability contribute to inefficient outcomes. Villages that are poor and remote (and are assumed to be less able to fund administrative costs without over-reporting and less likely to be audited) over-reported more, while farmers were less likely to receive subsidy payments to which they were entitled if the village leader had lower managerial ability and a larger village to manage. In the Sloping Land Conversion Program, finely tuned targeting that might be optimal in a smaller program is impractical due to administrative costs.Chapter 3 compares determinants of enrollment at the parcel and household levels for parcels where farmers made the decision of whether to enroll to parcels where local governments made the decision. It finds no evidence that farmers place more weight on productivity relative to ecological factors, but rather that decisions made by local governments are more easily predicted by plot characteristics such as slope and soil quality, and to some extent by a desire to create contiguous forests, whereas farmers place more weight on land characteristics relative to land on the same farm and on education and other household characteristics. The most important difference between farmer and local government decision-making is the frame of reference, the scale within the landscape to which land under consideration for enrollment is compared, not the relative weights placed on different criteria of suitability for enrollment.

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being. Contributors explore how in the second decade of the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies and in the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Central and South America continue to be carrying a particularly heavy burden for many of the downstream effects of the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis. The authors explore the ways in which increasing local and global inequalities often have profound consequences for large populations of young people. These consequences are not just related to marginalisation from education, training and work. They also include obstacles to their active participation in the civic life of their communities, to their transitions, to their sense of belonging. The book examines the choices that are made, or not made by governments, businesses and individuals in relation to young people's education, training, work, health and well-being, sexualities, diets and bodies, in the context of a crisis of neoliberalism and of austerity.

Preliminary Material /Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp -- 21st Century Hinterlands /Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp -- On Becoming /Annelies Kamp and Peter Kelly -- Young People and the Social Consequences of the Post-Industrial Economy /Andy Furlong -- A Critical Reassessment of the 'Complexity' Orthodoxy: Lessons from Existing Data and Youth 'Legacy' Studies /John Goodwin and Henrietta O'Connor -- Beyond 'Biographical' and 'Cultural Illusions' in European Youth Studies: Temporality and Critical Youth Studies /Magda Nico -- The Ambiguous Mobilities of Young Australians /Lucas Walsh and Ros Black -- Young People and Food: The Moral Project of the Healthy Self /Jo Pike -- (Dis)ability and Choice: The Dilemmas of Young People's Transitions to Further and Higher Education in Ireland /Geraldine Scanlon , Michael Shevlin and Conor McGuckin -- Deleuze and the Teenage Mother: Trouble Makers for Education and Transition /Annelies Kamp -- Where the Wild Things Are /Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp -- On Fictions and Wicked Problems in Juvenile Justice: Towards a Critical Youth Studies /Rob Watts -- Religiosity and the Problem of Belonging for Amerindian Young People in Brazil /Maria de Lourdes and Beldi de Alcantara -- The Problems of Child Labor and Education in Peru: A Critical Analysis of 'Universal' Approaches to Youth Development /Dena Aufseeser -- Running to the Future: Youth Inequalities, Homelessness and Points of Reinsertion /Joan Smith , Nora Duckett and Filipa Menezes -- A Tale of Two Crises: Young People and the Great Recession in Portugal and Ireland /David Cairns -- Resisting Youth and the Crushing State Violence of Neoliberalism /Henry A. Giroux -- On Assemblage /Annelies Kamp and Peter Kelly -- Queer Youth Research/ers: A Reflexive Account of Risk and Intimacy in an Ethical (Mine) field /Jodie Taylor and Angela Dwyer -- Youth Culture in/beyond Indonesia: Hybridity or Assemblage? /Pam Nilan -- Wangba and Heterotopian Experiences: Urban Chinese Young People and Their Use of Internet Cafes /Fengshu Liu -- Bloods, Crips and Southern Cross Soldiers: Gang Identities in Australia /Amelia Johns -- Fostering Complicit Femininity: Epoch, Education and the Young Female Body /Majella McSharry and Brendan Walsh -- Iraqi and us Contact Zones: Encountering Young People on the Frontlines of the War on Terror /Perri Campbell and Luke Howie -- Youth Research as Transformative Social Critique: Uncertainties of Young People in Post-socialist Lithuania /Herwig Reiter -- ANTsy Youth /Annelies Kamp and Peter Kelly -- Our Troubling Fix on Urban Adolescents: A New York Story /Madeline Fox and Michelle Fine -- Re-imagining Youth Participation in the 21st Century: Young People in Aotearoa New Zealand Speak Out /Christina R. Ergler and Bronwyn E. Wood -- Beyond the Romance of Participatory Youth Research /Ann Dadich -- Moving Beyond 'Frail' Democracy: A Youth-Led Youth Studies /Theo Gavrielides -- 'Elegant Subversion': Beyond Deficit and Compensation to Education for 'Communities of Promise' /David Zyngier -- Justice Citizens: Contesting Young People's Participation and Citizenship at the Start of the 21st Century /Keith Heggart.

In the years following 9/11, we spoke to residents of an Australian city who had witnessed the attacks on television in a research process that we came to describe as holographic. This metaphor emerged as we struggled to represent data generated in these interviews. This struggle over meaning provoked us to ask fundamental questions about the collection of knowledge in sociologies of terrorism – about the encounter of Self–Other in interviews; the embodied, situated location of researcher and researched in such encounters; how this location exists in particular configurations of time and space but is continually re-animated in other configurations of time and space as processes of meaning-making unfold in the production of a variety of texts (recordings, transcripts, papers, articles). To study terrorism, researchers grapple, knowingly or not, with an unstable and volatile concept. It is a volatility that should be embraced, not marginalised, in sociological research into terrorism.