Introduction: Thinking from the Margins – David Farrugia and Signe Ravn

Part I: Inequalities: Education and Aspiration on the Margins

1. Peripheries Within the City: The Role of Place in Shaping Youth Educational Transitions and Identities – Aina Tarabini, Judith Jacovkis and Alejandro Montes

2. Disrupting the Discourse of Under-representation: The Place of Rural Students in Australian Higher Education Equity Policy – Sally Patfield, Jennifer Gore and Leanne Fray

3. Becoming a Young Organic Farmer in the Indian Punjab – Trent Brown

Part II: Materialities: Spatiality and Sensory Embodiment

4. Reimagining Space, Reorganising Lives: Environmental activism in Myanmar – Johanna Garnett

5. ‘A Quiet Place’: The Natural Environment as a Sphere of (Non)Belonging for Refugee-background Young People in Regional Resettlement Locations – Caitlinn Nunn

6. Bright Lights, No City: Investigating Young People’s Suburban and Rural Drinkscapes – Laura Fenton, Claire Markham and Samantha Wilkinson

Part III: Identities: Mobility, Rootedness and Belonging

7. Thinking Beyond the Neighbourhood and National Territory: Exploring Central American Migration from a Mobilities Perspective – Lirio del Carmen Gutiérrez Rivera

8. Youth Transitions and Spatiality: The Case of a Deprived Coastal Town in the UK – Aniela Wenham

9. Homeownership Beyond the Metropolis: Housing and Rootedness in Regional Tasmania – Julia Cook, Helen Cahill and Dan Woodman

Part IV: Temporalities: Historicising Space and Place

10. Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment. Placemaking and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Finnish Rural Youth – Kaisa Vehkalahti and Helena Pennanen

11. Backward Youth? Racist Trolling and Political (in)Correctness among Young People in Rural Sweden – Susanna Areschoug

12. At the Margins: The Persistent Inequalities of Youth, Place and Class – Rob Mac Donald

Signe Ravn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.