Theodoros Iosifides is Professor of Social Science Methods in the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. He has written extensively books and journal papers on social science epistemology and methodology, qualitative methods, migration, human/social geography and local/regional development.

Stelios Gialis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece, since 2014. He is Scientific Coordinator of YOUTHShare (A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA: Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs/ 2018-2022). He has a long track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals including Geoforum, European Urban and Regional Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Economic and Industrial Democracy. His research interests include Economic Geography, Labour Geography and the spatiality of (youth) labour markets.

Athanasios (Thanasis) Kizos is Professor of Rural Geography in the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean since 2005. He holds a bachelor in Agronomy from the Department of Agronomy of the School of Geotechnical Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Ph.D. in Environmental Management and Policy from the Department of Environmental Studies of the University of the Aegean.

1. Introduction

Theodoros Iosifides, Stelios Gialis, Thanasis Kizos

2. The NEET category: the concept and its critique

Manos Spyridakis, Georgios Dourgkounas

3. Young NEETs, socio-spatial inequalities and labour precariousness: a multi-scale regional account

Michalis Poulimas, Georgios Chatzichristos, Manos Spyridakis, Stelios Gialis

4. Researching young NEETs in Southern Europe: theoretical and methodological insights

Athina Avagianou, Michalis Poulimas, Theodoros Iosifides

5. Socio-spatial characteristics of NEETs in southern Europe: What primary and secondary quantitative data reveal

Effie Emmanouil, Carlos Pesquera Alonso, Praxedes Muñoz Sánchez and Thanasis Kizos

6. NEETs talk: qualitative research on NEETs' socio-spatial trajectories, social actions and life strategies

Athina Avagianou, Ioannis Pissourios, Natia Anastasi, Michalis Poulimas, Theodoros Iosifides, Georgios Chatzichristos

7. Re-politicising the NEETs issue: policy contexts and responses

Georgios Chatzichristos

8. Concluding remarks

Theodoros Iosifides, Stelios Gialis, Thanasis Kizos

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