Generationing Development: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development

✍ Scribed by Roy Huijsmans (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This ground-breaking book weaves together insights from the children and youth studies literature and critical development studies. Debunking the idea of childhood and youth as self-evident social categories, the author unravels how these generational constructs are (re)constituted and experienced in relational terms in development contexts spanning both the Global South and the Global North.

Running through these chapters is a fundamental concern with age, gender and generation as key principles of social differentiation. This is developed in Part 1 at a theoretical level, and applied to everyday contexts, including school, work, migration and the street in Part 2. Part 3 zooms in on the generational dynamics of development by exploring how prominent development interventions (conditional cash transfers, schooling) problems (gender discrimination) and questions (the generational question of farming) shape the (gendered) experience of being young and growing up.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Generationing Development: An Introduction....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Locating Young Refugees Historically: Attending to Age Position in Humanitarianism....Pages 35-57
Bodies, Brains, and Age: Unpacking the Age Question in the Dutch Sex Work Debate....Pages 59-76
The Impact of ‘Age-Class’ on Becoming a Young Farmer in an Industrialised Agricultural Sector: Insights from Nova Scotia, Canada....Pages 77-101
Mainstreaming Social Age in the Sustainable Development Goals: Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects....Pages 103-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Generationing School Bullying: Age-Based Power Relations, the Hidden Curriculum, and Bullying in Northern Vietnamese Schools....Pages 127-149
‘Being Small Is Good’: A Relational Understanding of Dignity and Vulnerability Among Young Male Shoe-Shiners and Lottery Vendors on the Streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....Pages 151-174
‘We Don’t Even Use Our Older Children’: Young Children Accompanying Blind Adult Beggars in Tamale, Ghana....Pages 175-198
Travelling Identities: Gendered Experiences While Doing Research with Young Allochtoon Dutch Muslims....Pages 199-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Subjects of Development: Teachers, Parents, and Youth Negotiating Education in Rural North India....Pages 221-242
Little People, Big Words: ‘Generationating’ Conditional Cash Transfers in Urban Ecuador....Pages 243-265
Growing Up Unwanted: Girls’ Experiences of Gender Discrimination and Violence in Tamil Nadu, India....Pages 267-289
Youth, Farming, and Precarity in Rural Burundi....Pages 291-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Age and Generation in the Service of Development?....Pages 315-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-335

✦ Subjects

Development Theory;Development and Social Change;Children, Youth and Family Policy;Gender Studies