Overview
- Focuses on the political repercussions of students debt, particularly for political action and agency
- Explores student experiences of debt presenting evidence from 70 in-depth interviews with students
- Reconsiders how the underlying conditions of democracies are shaping the political imagination and agency of students as citizens
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics (PSYPP)
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This book examines how student debt informs the political action and participation of university students. The scale of student debt is unprecedented, particularly in the English-speaking world. In these democracies, debt has become an increasingly integral part of student life for many young people to enable participation in education and the wider economy. Using New Zealand as a case study, the author challenges existent assumptions about student attitudes towards loans by analysing how students speak about the impact of debt on themselves and their peers, including politically. Listening to these perspectives will provide a more nuanced insight into the underlying tensions and challenges of participating politically in a context of rising debt.
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Keywords
- student debt
- student experiences
- public dialogue
- student loan schemes
- appraisals of student debt
- variation in experience
- risk
- emotion
- private responsibility
- contribution of student debt to inequality
- economic inequality
- participation in public life
- political engagement
- precautionary principle
- political agency
- pragmatism
- repercussions of student loan debt
- student debt crisis
- university education
- tuition fees
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sylvia Nissen is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Management at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research focuses on young people, politics and democracy in a context of environmental change. She has published a chapter in an international volume, Student Politics and Protest (2017, edited by Rachel Brooks), and contributed to the Journal of Urgent Writing (2017, forthcoming) and New Zealand Sociology (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Debt and Political Participation
Authors: Sylvia Nissen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96322-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96321-1Published: 16 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96322-8Published: 04 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-501X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 105
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Asian Politics, Educational Policy and Politics