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Introduction. Alternative programmes, alternative schools and social justice  1. Cracking with affect: relationality in young people’s movements in and out of mainstream schooling  2. Young black males: resilience and the use of capital to transform school ‘failure’  3. Caught between a rock and a hard place: disruptive boys’ views on mainstream and special schools in New South Wales, Australia  4. ‘It’s the best thing I’ve done in a long while’: teenage mothers’ experiences of educational alternatives  5. Meaningful education for returning-to-school students in a comprehensive upper secondary school in Iceland  6. Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education  7. Alternative education and social justice: considering issues of affective and contributive justice  8. The force of habit: channelling young bodies at alternative education spaces  9. Teachers’ work and innovation in alternative schools