Educational Aspirations and Inter-Generational Relations in Sorowako

Robinson, Kathryn

doi:10.1163/9789004307445_005

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“…This approach studies how young people's ‘transitions’ to school, employment and other life stages must be understood alongside other socio‐cultural, geographical and temporal contexts. In agrarian and youth studies, related trends are the ‘prolongation of youthhood’ as many young people, including women, stay in school longer, leading to longer financial dependence on parents, later marriages and delayed access to farmland (Robinson, 2016; White, 2012b). In Java, Indonesia, for example, Koning (2005) found that young women struggled to make an ‘impossible return’ to a rural village after working and living in Jakarta.…”

Section: ‘Generation’ In Youth Agrarian Change and Trans‐local Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additional concepts which help add critical meanings to age and gender over time, space and place include intergenerationality, intersectionality and the life course (Hopkins & Pain, 2008). Intergenerational relations, for instance, can help explain how ambivalent feelings develop between generations through different expectations and experiences of places (Robinson, 2016). Likewise, the intersections of gender, family and social class can problematise notions of ‘adulthood’ for rural young women in India (Morrow, 2013), and life course approaches can show how migration for off‐farm work has become a ‘normal’ part of growing up for rural youth in Cambodia (Peou, 2016).…”

Section: ‘Generation’ In Youth Agrarian Change and Trans‐local Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Young generations were between the approximate ages of 18–35; middle generations between the ages of 36–55; and older generations were aged 56 and above. ‘Young generations’ held a broader age frame to recognise the ‘prolongation of youthhood’ across the region (Robinson, 2016; White, 2012b), and to follow research ethics, which only allowed me to interview young people aged 18 and over. Moreover, since I was interested in young people's relations to natal land, my questions targeted young adults and their experiences in employment and tertiary education.…”

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A generational perspective on rural livelihood change

Clendenning

2024

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As rural places and people are increasingly intertwined between cities, markets and mobility, broader perspectives are needed to examine the multiple changes occurring between rural and urban spaces, and between families and generations. This article discusses how a generational perspective can study ‘more‐than‐rural’ change in a contemporaneous manner. Drawing on field examples from a village on Flores Island, Indonesia, I show how intergenerational views, gathered through household surveys and in‐depth interviews, gave further depth to younger generations' changing relationships to land. Why, despite greater numbers of young people leaving the village for greater work and study opportunities elsewhere, were many parents sure their children would return one day? Using intergenerational and life‐course views to answer this question revealed how many villagers encountered livelihood limitations elsewhere. Furthermore, I show how generational data give fuller explanations to household dynamics, such as how age and gender play a role in the pursuit of migration between family members, and how rural land and households are managed over time and space. I conclude by discussing the strengths and challenges of building a generational perspective to study ‘more‐than‐rural’ livelihood change.

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Section: ‘Generation’ In Youth Agrarian Change and Trans‐local Researchmentioning

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2024

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The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Sirimorok,

Dressler

et al. 2023

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Processes of rapid and truncated agrarian change—driven through expanding urbanisation, infrastructure development, extractive industries, and commodity crops—are shaping the livelihood opportunities and aspirations of Indonesia’s rural youth. This study describes the everyday experiences of youth as they navigate the changing character of agriculture, aquaculture, and fishing livelihoods across gender, class, and generation. Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Maros District of South Sulawesi, we examine young people’s experiences of agrarian change in a landscape of entangled rural, coastal and increasingly urbanised spaces. We find that young people aspire to secure, modern, and salary-based work, while continuing to seek and sustain intergenerational farming or aquaculture-based livelihoods. Youth take advantage of increased connectivity to diversify their incomes, yet their dependence on mobility also introduces new forms of gendered and class based precarity such as insecure working arrangements, disruption to education and violence (especially for young unskilled women and youth from financially insecure households). Our study highlights the persistent conditions of precarity that many young people encounter in both rural and urban settings, while challenging assumptions that youth are uninterested in rural futures.

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