From financial crisis to social change: towards alternative horizons

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.