Youth under construction: the United Nations’ representations of youth in the global conversation on the post-2015 development agenda

Bersaglio, Brock; Enns, Charis; Kepe, Thembela

doi:10.1080/02255189.2015.994596

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“…The first reason we chose to focus on youth in this paper is the widespread tendency to marginalize young people's voices in local, academic and policy debates on development issues (KnowlesYanez, 2005;Bersaglio et al, 2015). This tendency is disconcerting in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, where over one-third of the population is between the ages of 10 and 24 (UNPF, 2012).…”

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Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya

Enns

Bersaglio

2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya

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Bersaglio

2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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“…Across lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs), young people's outnumbering of other demographics represents both an opportunity and a threat (Sommers 2011;Bersaglio et al 2015). The second decade of life is a time when young people become sexually active, exit education and enter work (Patton et al 2016), making this an important window of opportunity for interventions.…”

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Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind

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Given increasing policy attention to the consequences of youth marginalisation for development processes, engaging with the experiences of socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (including those who are out of school, refugees, married, with disabilities or adolescent parents) is a pressing priority. To understand how these disadvantages—and adolescents’ abilities to respond to them—intersect to shape opportunities and outcomes, this Special Issue draws on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence conceptual framework which accounts for gender roles and norms, family, community and political economy contexts in shaping adolescents’ capabilities. Implicitly critiquing a focus within youth studies on individual agency, the articles advance our understanding of how adolescents’ marginalisation is shaped by their experiences, social identities and the contexts in which they are growing up. An analytical framework foregrounding intersectionality and collective capabilities offers a means to politicise these findings and challenge uncritical academic celebration of individual agency as the means to address structural problems.

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“…While questioning these motives, youth roles as political actors have been amplified in social movements and select literatures. For instance, Jacquez et al (2013) share how youth mobilize as actors in academic research, and Bersaglio et al (2015), while critical of the UN's agenda, highlight how youth organize to further environmental priorities at the UN level. Critical Indigenous scholars have pointed to youth mobilizing against coloniality, and how they are working within the fabric of communities to challenge the hold that extractive capital has on Indigenous homelands (Curley 2018; Yazzie 2018).…”

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“…Although youth engagement is called for by bodies such as the UN, the motives behind such calls are being questioned. For example, Bersaglio et al (2015) identify how neoliberal values and structures on the international stage are reinforced by the UN post‐2015 Millennium Development Goals. These goals envision youth as assets, risks, and “good citizens in the making” (Bersaglio et al 2015, 65).…”

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“…For example, Bersaglio et al (2015) identify how neoliberal values and structures on the international stage are reinforced by the UN post‐2015 Millennium Development Goals. These goals envision youth as assets, risks, and “good citizens in the making” (Bersaglio et al 2015, 65). The critique of Bersaglio and colleagues echoes arguments that initiatives such as the UN's Millennium Development Goals are re‐defining youth as enterprising subjects, reinforcing feelings of isolation, and perpetuating neoliberal agendas (Adger et al 2011; Cairns 2013).…”

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“Why would they care?”: Youth, resource extraction, and climate change in northern British Columbia, Canada

Morgan

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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• How rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous youth have been engaged in environmental decision making has at times been extractive itself. • On local and global stages, youth-and particularly Indigenous youth-are demanding action-oriented and accountable responses to the climate crises. • Youth from northern BC communicate desires for the future of their communities to reveal the power of youth voices as they contribute to more just and sustainable communities. Discussion about local decision making tends to overlook rural and remote youth engagement. Resource extractive industries are, however, fixtures in many rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in settler colonial British Columbia, Canada. These industries shape youths' perceived options for social and economic ventures when they are looking towards their futures. By engaging literature on climate change, settler colonialism, and critical Indigenous studies, and drawing on empirics from workshops conducted with youth from northern British Columbia, this paper explores how rural and remote northern and Indigenous youth engagement and perspectives can transform discussions on climate change and resource extraction. The paper documents how rural and northern youth have been engaged in environmental decision making, particularly in light of resource extraction. The paper also suggests that environmental decision making has at times been extractive itself. The paper concludes that when engaged meaningfully, youth desire to work collectively against social and environmental injustices.

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Youth under construction: the United Nations’ representations of youth in the global conversation on the post-2015 development agenda

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya

Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya

Intersectionality as a Framework for Understanding Adolescent Vulnerabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries: Expanding Our Commitment to Leave No One Behind

“Why would they care?”: Youth, resource extraction, and climate change in northern British Columbia, Canada

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