Crisis Reloaded: Young People’s Lives Between Structure and Agency
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2021) | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently living in difficult times. Following a long but incomplete recovery from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, another planetary crisis has arisen from the still unknown consequences of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Societies throughout the globe are at an unprecedented standstill while making all efforts to cope with the sanitary consequences of the pandemic. Economies are suffering with a massive decrease of supply and demand, with immediate impacts on employment, consumption, and public and private budgetary deficits. At the political level, increased polarization at local, national, and international level leaves scarce space for negotiation and cooperation.
These structural constraints are inevitably manifesting on the lives of young people. Educational trajectories are being affected by the inequities of online education, and transition from education to employment is harder due to the labor market conjunctural cutbacks, a process that is also being amplified by the digitalization, robotization, and platformization of the economy. These structural constraints are already motivating agency by young people, based on different available resources.
This call for papers aims to collect diversified sociological (or interdisciplinary) accounts on the interaction between structural constraints and agency responses by young people to the context brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and respective multidimensional consequences on local, national or international contexts.
Prof. Dr. Nuno de Almeida Alves
Guest Editor
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