This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath
of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of
academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with it
addresses three interrelated questions facing young people today: how to reclaim our
universities how to revitalise our democracy and how to recast politics in the 21st century.
This book emphasises the crucial importance of generational experience as a wellspring for
progressive social change. For it is the young generations who have come of age in a world
marred by crises that are at the forefront of challenging the status quo. With insight into new
social movements and protests in the UK Canada Greece and Ukraine this stimulating
collection of works will be invaluable for those teaching studying and campaigning for
alternatives. It will also be of relevance to scholars in social movement studies the
sociology and anthropology of economic life the sociology of education social and political
theory and political sociology.
