Overview
- Integrates Childhood Studies and Development Studies, providing a novel addition to both fields
- Helps to drive forward debates around age and generation in relation to development studies
- Combines a wide range of topics covered by both established and newer researchers in the field
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theorising Age and Generation in Young Lives
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Everyday Relationalities: School, Work and Belonging
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Negotiating Development
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Commentary
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This volume is a timely addition for academics and practitioners working in policy, youth and development fields. … The volume provides timely insights for why children and youth perspectives need to be integrated within current development research and approaches.” (Jessica Clendenning, Children's Geographies, Vol. 17 (6), 2019)
“This exciting and timely collection, framed by an excellent introduction and concluding discussion, is a key resource not only for students of international development at all levels, but also for policy makers and practitioners alike, as they grapple with some key problems relating to children and youth facing the world today.” (Virginia Morrow, University of Oxford, UK)
“This sparkling new volume brings together established and emerging names in the study of children and youth globally to fundamentally reorient our thinking on age, development, and generation. A tour de force.” (Craig Jeffrey, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“This is a wonderfully rich and diverse collection of articles offering fascinating insights into the lives of young people across the world. Theoretically sophisticated but highly readable, it brings together cutting edge research from many disciplines and expands our knowledge and understanding of young people in exciting and thought-provoking ways.” (Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK)
“Generationing Development provides critical and useful perspectives on the important role of children and youth in development as well as the embeddedness of development processes in experiences of childhood and youth. The book is a long overdue and necessary addition to the interdisciplinary fields of childhood studies and youth studies.” (Tatek Abebe, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Roy Huijsmans is Senior Lecturer in Children & Youth Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, the Netherlands (part of Erasmus University Rotterdam). He has written on childhood, youth and migration, the generational dynamics of multi-local householding, and on nationalism, youth and mobile telephony.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Generationing Development
Book Subtitle: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development
Editors: Roy Huijsmans
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55622-6Published: 04 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71755-2Published: 19 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55623-3Published: 24 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5724
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5732
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 335
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Theory, Development and Social Change, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Gender Studies