‘Generationing’ Development

Ansell, Nicola

doi:10.1057/ejdr.2013.68

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“…This work focuses on how generational relationships shape society rather than individual lives and lifecourses. Economic and social development processes are understood to be conceived and implemented through practices that both rely on and reconfigure generational relations (Ansell, ).…”

Section: Relational Geographies Of Age and Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho

Ansell

Hajdú

Blerk

et al. 2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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Marriage among African teenagers is currently a central focus of campaigns by UN agencies and international NGOs. Yet marriage has received only limited attention from geographers and has largely escaped the attention of geographers of youth. In this paper we explore the relational geographies of age that underlie young people's motivations for, and experiences of, marriage in two rural African settings with differing marriage practices: matrilocal southern Malawi and patrilocal Lesotho. We draw on participatory research activities and life history interviews conducted with 80 people aged between 10 and 24 years old. While the young people's attitudes and experiences were varied and complex, starkly different accounts emerged from the two settings. In particular, young women in Lesotho offered very negative assessments of marriage, while those in Malawi were very much more positive. Through these examples, we highlight how young people's marriage choices and experiences are relationally produced. Decisions about whether, when and whom to marry reflect socially entrenched expectations concerning generational allocations of resources, labour and responsibilities, which intersect with contemporary social and economic processes including poverty, unemployment, land scarcity and AIDS. Experiences of marriage, too, are produced through practices that are spatially structured and contextually situated in relation to socio-economic conditions. Thus marriage, as a "vital conjuncture" in young people's lives, plays a key role in the relational construction of individual lifecourses and in (re)constructing relationships of age, gender and, especially, generation.

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Section: Relational Geographies Of Age and Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho

Ansell

Hajdú

Blerk

et al. 2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The most common and everyday use is as a life-phase, distinguishing childhood from adulthood. Generation also refers to a cohort of people who grow up together and share a life-changing cultural experience; or a kinship descent which is exemplified by parent–child relationships; or a historical period (Alanen, 2001; Ansell, 2014). Of the four meanings presented here, the age-based life-phase is the most ontologically grounded and has the most conceptual and methodological utility for childhood sociology.…”

Section: Generationing As a Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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“…Instead, childhood is a social construct that is created through life encounters. Children’s interactions with themselves and other groups mediate their lived experiences and shape their behaviour, values and motivations (Ansell, 2014; Prout and James, 1997). Since childhood develops through interactions with people of varying ages, it is an intergenerational experience (Alanen, 2014).…”

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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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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“…While rural schooling fosters formal skills for formal employment required for global citizens in a globalizing world (Ansell 2014), the rural African contexts are largely based on informal economy with scarce formal opportunities. Increasing literature highlights how attainment of formal education does not always lead to better employment opportunities but also creates unrealistic expectations.…”

Section: Global Education: the 'Moral Trap' Of Universal Primary Educmentioning

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Studying intergenerational processes in 21st century rural African societies

Phiri¹

2019

Barn

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This paper illustrates the impact of political economy on young people's life courses and intergenerational processes in rural Africa. Rapid transformations and social changes in rural Africa often as a result of political economy contributes to the increasing malleability of rural contexts and tensions across the life courses of children and youth. The temporality and spatiality of globalisation are illustrated using the neo-liberal policies in the Economic Structural Adjustments Programmes (ESAPs) and the global educational policies in the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). The paper discusses the epistemological and methodological implications of political economy in rural African societies including approaches that capture complex interpenetrating factors contributing towards "constructions of young lives", "contexts and identities" and "agency and social responsibilities".

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‘Generationing’ Development

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho

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

Studying intergenerational processes in 21st century rural African societies

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