Young People and Uncertain Futures?: A Genealogy of Young People's Enterprise and Aspiration, The Fourth...

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James Goring (Deakin University, Australia) Peter Kelly (Deakin University, Australia)

Young People and Uncertain Futures?

A Genealogy of Young People's Enterprise and Aspiration, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and...

James Goring (Deakin University, Australia), Peter Kelly (Deakin University, Australia)

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Routledge
29 August 2025

Social forecasting, future studies; Age groups: children; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

Drawing on Foucault’s ‘genealogical ethos’ and his work on power/knowledge/subjects, this book analyses the ways in which neo-liberal education apparatuses in Australia and other high-income economies frame the problem of young people and uncertain futures.

The book critically examines the character of the presents and futures of education, training, and work, and of the planet that have been produced in globalising neo-liberal capitalism during the last four decades, and which see in the development of young people’s enterprise and aspiration, the solutions to multiple crises and uncertainties. It analyses how and why young people’s behaviours and dispositions have been made knowable in these ways, and the limits and possibilities that they produce for understanding what young people must be and become.

The book draws on post-humanist, feminist studies of techno-science and futures studies to explore the promise of more socially just and sustainable futures for young people. A thought-provoking study for scholars and students of the sociology of education and of youth and society, it will be invaluable for policymakers, governments, NGOs, educators, and undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in young people and the crises of capitalism, earth systems, and the biosphere.

By: James Goring (Deakin University Australia), Peter Kelly (Deakin University, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781032777528
ISBN 10: 1032777524
Series: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 29 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Goring is Lecturer in Education in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the critical sociologies of education and youth studies. He seeks to better understand the relationships between young people’s health and well-being, their education, training, and employment pathways, and planetary crisis. Peter Kelly is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research focuses on young people’s education, employment, and well-being in times of crisis at the convergence of the sixth mass extinction and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. His books include Young People and Thinking Technologies of/for the Anthropocene (2022), COVID-19 and the (Broken) Promise of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Post-Colonial Pakistan (2023), Informal Workers and a Political Economy of Life Long Learning: Provocations from the Margins of Global Capitalism (2024), and On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work (2025).