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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.
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.
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original,
nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral
economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast
Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new
mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform
people's ways of life, notions of personhood, and their meaning
making of the world. It highlights the moral dilemmas and anxieties
emerging from the profound socio-economic transformations that are
taking place across the region and deepens our understanding of
local cultures as well as the inner contradictions of global
capital in Asian contexts. With rich ethnographic insights and a
diverse range of empirical contexts, chapters in this volume reveal
multifaceted complexities and contradictions in the relationship
between money and moralities. Money, they affirm, is not an
impersonal, objective economic instrument with homogenizing powers
but a culturally constructed and socially mediated currency in
which meanings are constantly contested and re-negotiated across
time and space.
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