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

Generationing Development: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development
ISBN-10
1137556234
ISBN-13
9781137556233
Category
Social Science
Pages
335
Language
English
Published
2016-12-24
Publisher
Springer
Author
Roy Huijsmans

Description

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.

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