Generationing Development: An Introduction

Huijsmans, Roy

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3_1

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“…Development which typically involves macro- and micro-level changes is said to be mediated by complex intergenerational relationships in spatial and temporal terms (Ansell, 2014). When applied to development practice, generationing can sharpen observation of dynamic interactions between economic, social and political and young people’s lives (Ansell, 2014; Huijsmans, 2016). In this vein, Cheney and Rotabi (2015) and Huijsmans (2016, 2017) have demonstrated the conceptual value of generationing in development and childhood studies by analysing children’s lives in globalised socio-economic processes like international migration and adoption.…”

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Competing intergenerational perspectives of living with albinism in Kenya and their implications for children’s lives

Nyamu

2020

Childhood

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Vicious attacks on persons with albinism for rituals and subsequent lobbying by adults led to recognition of albinism as a disability in Kenya. The disability frame informed policies and programmes developed to safeguard the welfare of persons with albinism. Using generationing as a theoretical lens, this article explores how generational relationships mediate children’s experiences of living with albinism in the context of harmful cultural practices, disability politics and adult-defined activism. Three social institutions which structure generational interactions – the family, the school and the state – are analysed. Findings suggest that generation is a productive force with important implications for childhood experiences and policy-making.

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Section: Generationing As a Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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Competing intergenerational perspectives of living with albinism in Kenya and their implications for children’s lives

Nyamu

2020

Childhood

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“…Karl Mannheim (1952) introduced the theory of generations as a way to understand how history, place and social events affect the relations and identities between young people. Mannheim studied generational cohorts, or how successive generations were shaped by historical, political or contemporary trends, which influence young people's identities, cultures and movements (Huijsmans 2016). A second, and more common understanding of generation is linked with kinship descent.…”

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Approaching rural young people

Clendenning¹

2019

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Acknowledgements v Executive summary vi research with young people; 3. Supporting local and regional rural development activities with a youth lens; and 4. Engaging local to national level partnerships to advocate and support rural young men and women. 1 CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) (2017a). 3 These agencies include the World Bank (WB); Department for International Development (DFID); and United Nations (UN) institutions (i.e., International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); UN Women; and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation. How and why these reports were chosen is explained in Section 2. unpublished. CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).

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“…For some decades now, recognising children’s agency has been a key characteristic of childhood studies (Huijsmans, 2016: 1). Yet, in relation to consumption, such agency is exercised in a field shaped by powerful commercial actors, often specifically targeting children.…”

Section: Childhood Money and Consumption Between The Global North Anmentioning

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Monetised childhoods: Money and consumption among young weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Taye

Huijsmans

2019

Global Studies of Childhood

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In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children’s lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an element of the informal apprenticeships through which Gamo children learn to weave. Qualitative research with young weavers shows that both girls and boys become involved in weaving. Yet the amount of senbeta misa money they receive differs substantially, fuelling distinctly different consumption practices and reinforcing broader gender relations. Zooming in on boys’ monetised leisure activities, we furthermore argue that through consumption belonging to age-based, ethnic peer groups is realised. Moreover, while the monetisation of leisure is shaped by globalisation and market forces, we show that boys and young men themselves also actively contribute to the monetisation of their leisure activities and thereby transform the nature of play.

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Generationing Development: An Introduction

Cited by 28 publications

References 91 publications

Competing intergenerational perspectives of living with albinism in Kenya and their implications for children’s lives

Competing intergenerational perspectives of living with albinism in Kenya and their implications for children’s lives

Approaching rural young people

Monetised childhoods: Money and consumption among young weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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