Intersecting crises and young people’s lived experience

This research project examines young people’s experiences of living in a time of polycrisis in the contexts of the global South and North.

Polycrisis refers to a network of interconnected and simultaneous crises. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have given rise to intersecting crises that have affected young people’s everyday lives and visions of their future.

The project examines how young people aged 16–19 belonging to different groups in Finland and Morocco experience the intersection of different crises in their everyday lives. How do young people live with multiple crises, and what kind of future prospects do they envision in the shadow of these crises? The study brings together perspectives from sociology and literature and reading studies. The project is funded by the Kone Foundation.

Research group (left to right): Johanna Nurmi, PI; Faith Mkwesha, post-doctoral researcher; Elli Peltonen, doctoral researcher; Kaiju Harinen, post-doctoral researcher.