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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; 1 Introduction; Young Perspectives of Post-truth Times; The Challenges of Uncertainty; The Approach of This Book; References; 2 Setting the Scene; Introduction; The Research Project; The Universities and Interviewees; Conceptualising Youth in Changing Times; Conceptualising the Young University Student; The Missing Middle; Inserting Time and the Imagined Future; Inserting Mobility; Inserting Affect; Conclusion; References; 3 The Changing Promises and Prospects of Higher Education; Introduction; Higher Education for Individual Success
To Give Us the Best ProspectsThe Truths and Promises of Higher Education; Higher Education and Mobility; Not Working but Learning: The Rise and Rise of 'Homo Economicus'; What Matters Is Who I Know; Conclusion; References; 4 Imagining the Family in Post-truth Times; Introduction; Reinserting the Family into Higher Education; Dreaming of Home; Leaving Home to Learn; Sharing and Supporting Hope Beyond Money and Shelter; Forming Families of Their Own; Parenting and Higher Education; Conclusion; References; 5 Planning for Uncertainty: The Workforce Ahead; Introduction
The Changing Value of Higher Education QualificationsStrategies for an Imagined Career; Work and the Massification of Higher Education; The Impact of Economic Downturns; Technology, Digital Skills and the Automation of Labour; The Emergence of the Gig Economy; Keeping Faith in the Opportunity Bargain; Conclusion; References; 6 Reacting to the Future: The University Student as Homo Promptus; Introduction; Homo Promptus Is Entrepreneurial and Strategic; Homo Promptus Plans for the Future While Living Life in the Short-Term; Homo Promptus Is not Tethered to a Single Place
Homo Promptus Is Permanently in 'Situational' ModeHomo Promptus Lives in Waithood; Being 'Precarious People'; Conclusion; References; 7 Making the Future: Homo Promptus and the Political; Introduction; The Politics of Uncertainty; Losing Trust in Politics; The Comfort of the Familiar; Homo Promptus as a Political Actor; Young Political Actors in a Post-truth World; Post-truth Politics and Affect; Conclusion; References; 8 Conclusion-What Is the Future of Youth?; Introduction; Rethinking the Truths of Youth; Engaging the Microfuture: 'My Biggest Worry … Is Outside of Myself'
Imagining the Mesofuture: 'I just Don't Know What the Future Might Bring'Navigating the Macrofuture: 'There's Something Weird Happening'; Imagining the Future in Post-truth Times; Concluding Thoughts for a Hopeful Future; References
To Give Us the Best ProspectsThe Truths and Promises of Higher Education; Higher Education and Mobility; Not Working but Learning: The Rise and Rise of 'Homo Economicus'; What Matters Is Who I Know; Conclusion; References; 4 Imagining the Family in Post-truth Times; Introduction; Reinserting the Family into Higher Education; Dreaming of Home; Leaving Home to Learn; Sharing and Supporting Hope Beyond Money and Shelter; Forming Families of Their Own; Parenting and Higher Education; Conclusion; References; 5 Planning for Uncertainty: The Workforce Ahead; Introduction
The Changing Value of Higher Education QualificationsStrategies for an Imagined Career; Work and the Massification of Higher Education; The Impact of Economic Downturns; Technology, Digital Skills and the Automation of Labour; The Emergence of the Gig Economy; Keeping Faith in the Opportunity Bargain; Conclusion; References; 6 Reacting to the Future: The University Student as Homo Promptus; Introduction; Homo Promptus Is Entrepreneurial and Strategic; Homo Promptus Plans for the Future While Living Life in the Short-Term; Homo Promptus Is not Tethered to a Single Place
Homo Promptus Is Permanently in 'Situational' ModeHomo Promptus Lives in Waithood; Being 'Precarious People'; Conclusion; References; 7 Making the Future: Homo Promptus and the Political; Introduction; The Politics of Uncertainty; Losing Trust in Politics; The Comfort of the Familiar; Homo Promptus as a Political Actor; Young Political Actors in a Post-truth World; Post-truth Politics and Affect; Conclusion; References; 8 Conclusion-What Is the Future of Youth?; Introduction; Rethinking the Truths of Youth; Engaging the Microfuture: 'My Biggest Worry … Is Outside of Myself'
Imagining the Mesofuture: 'I just Don't Know What the Future Might Bring'Navigating the Macrofuture: 'There's Something Weird Happening'; Imagining the Future in Post-truth Times; Concluding Thoughts for a Hopeful Future; References