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Youth disengagement is widespread in the less developed regions of advanced capitalism, and precarity is constantly (re)produced in the youth labour markets there. In this context, 'diverse economies' such as the social economy (SE) and the digital platform-induced sharing economy (DPSE) have emerged as policy solutions to pressing social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly in the south of the EU. However, most relevant studies examine labour in these new economies without considering the socio-spatial and political factors at play. This article proposes a spatially sensitive conceptualization of the relationship between youth disengagement and employment in the SE and DPSE. Drawing on key concepts from critical geography and geographical political economy, as well as recent research on the spatiality of youth, the article suggests that contemporary 'precarious youthspaces of work' are created by—and embedded in—'dismantled techno-spatial fixes' and discusses the reciprocal relationship between such youthspaces and diverse economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Australia has experienced low COVID-19 case numbers relative to other countries, it has witnessed severe economic consequences in the wake of the pandemic. The hospitality industry, in which young adults are overrepresented, has been among the most affected industries. In this article, we present findings from an interview and a digital methods-based study of young hospitality workers in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Newcastle who lost shifts or employment due to the pandemic. We argue that the participants' ability to cope with the loss of work was mediated by the degree of family support that they could access, with some experiencing the pandemic as an inconvenience, while others suffered extreme financial hardship. Findings from this study show that the most severe impacts of the pandemic play out along pre-existing lines of inequality and marginality, causing the most severe consequences for those who were already most vulnerable to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article details the ways in which young people experiencing homelessness are managing their relationships. Beck’s individualization thesis is used to relate young people’s relationships to social structures and to discourses of homelessness, addressing a tendency in the literature to focus on micro social encounters at the expense of structural processes. Data from qualitative interviews with 20 young people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne, Australia, are analyzed to describe the process of reflexive intersubjectivity as part of the active negotiation of structural inequality. This approach provides insight into the diversity of strat-egies used by young people experiencing homelessness. Three patterns of reflexive intersubjectivity are described: choosing independence, making family, and the process of making home. These are analyzed in terms of the way they reflect the struc-tural and discursive environment of youth homelessness. The article concludes with theoretical reflections on the relationship between homelessness, intersubjectivity and inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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