In Search of a Future
Youth, Aspiration, and Mobility in Nepal
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9780190124519
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
176 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1295.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190124519
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
176 pages
Andrea Kölbel, Meenakshi Thapan
Mitigates the language of crisis, characteristic of recent scholarly and public debates about young people's capacity to forge a future,Calls attention to a group of young people who so far remain less visible in public and scholarly debates about educated youth, precisely because they were not involved in spectacular actions commonly associated with student politics and consumer-oriented youth subcultures,Offers new insights into the changing nature of higher education based on extensive field research carried out with non-elite university students in urban Nepal,Scrutinizes Western-inspired approaches prevalent in the scholarship on youth which equate agency with resistance and individuality and convincingly argues that young people may grow in power as they learn to fulfil social obligations and foster stronger relationship with other people
Rights: World Rights
Andrea Kölbel, Meenakshi Thapan
Description
In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and runs the risk of reinforcing pervasive and often polarizing depictions of youth. In order to broaden the understanding of young people's collective actions and their potential social implications, it is necessary to ask: What types of agency do young people demonstrate?
This book aims to scrutinize some of the conceptual ideas that underlie prevalent visions of youth as agents of social change and as a source of hope for a better future. As a part of the Education and Society in South Asia series, it provides insightful accounts of students' daily routines on and around a public university campus in Kathmandu, Nepal, and calls attention to a group of non-elite university students who have remained less visible in scholarly and public debates about student activism, youth unemployment, and international migration. By placing different strands of literature on youth, aspiration, and mobility into conversation, In Search of a Future unveils new and important perspectives on how young people navigate competing social expectations, educational inequalities, and limited job prospects.
About the author
Andrea Kölbel, Research Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Technology, Berlin, and Series edited by Meenakshi Thapan, Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Andrea Kölbel, Meenakshi Thapan
Table of contents
Preface
1. Moving from Present to Future
2. Preparing for the Future
3. Fashioning the Future: Students' Spatial and Social (Im)Mobilities
4. Confronting the Present: Students' Absence from and Presence on Campus
5. Putting Down Roots to Move On: Students' Modest Appropriations of Dominant Future Strategies
6. Conclusions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Andrea Kölbel, Meenakshi Thapan
Description
In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and runs the risk of reinforcing pervasive and often polarizing depictions of youth. In order to broaden the understanding of young people's collective actions and their potential social implications, it is necessary to ask: What types of agency do young people demonstrate?
This book aims to scrutinize some of the conceptual ideas that underlie prevalent visions of youth as agents of social change and as a source of hope for a better future. As a part of the Education and Society in South Asia series, it provides insightful accounts of students' daily routines on and around a public university campus in Kathmandu, Nepal, and calls attention to a group of non-elite university students who have remained less visible in scholarly and public debates about student activism, youth unemployment, and international migration. By placing different strands of literature on youth, aspiration, and mobility into conversation, In Search of a Future unveils new and important perspectives on how young people navigate competing social expectations, educational inequalities, and limited job prospects.
About the author
Andrea Kölbel, Research Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Technology, Berlin, and Series edited by Meenakshi Thapan, Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Table of contents
Preface
1. Moving from Present to Future
2. Preparing for the Future
3. Fashioning the Future: Students' Spatial and Social (Im)Mobilities
4. Confronting the Present: Students' Absence from and Presence on Campus
5. Putting Down Roots to Move On: Students' Modest Appropriations of Dominant Future Strategies
6. Conclusions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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