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Term-Time Employment and the Long Transition to the Labor Market
Increasing educational participation rates in many countries have led to a delayed transition to full-time employment for young adults. As a result,...
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Thinking About Children and Youth
This section highlights critical and reflexive approaches to the concepts of childhood and youth, framing the scholarship that is reflected in this...
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Youth and Play: World-Making in the Real and the Imagined
This introductory chapter provides an overview and analysis of literatures engaging with the study of youth, cultural practice, and play. Using Wyn’s...
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Learning Sites: Tensions and Productive Possibilities
For this Learning section of the Handbook, we will not explore the more conventional dimensions of learning such as pedagogy or curriculum but...
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Children and Youth: Influences on Policy and Practice
Childhood studies and sociocultural theory, together with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have influenced policy and...
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Mobility Exchanges and the “Experience” of Learning on the Move
The chapter begins from an acknowledgment of the porous boundaries between formal and non-formal education. Such opportunities are supported across...
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Young People and the Promise of Sustainable Futures: Rethinking Learning in/for the Anthropocene
Prominent posthumanist philosopher Rosi Braidotti (Posthuman knowledge. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/rosi-braidotti/...
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Performative Pedagogy: Poststructural Theory as a Tool to Engage in Identity Work Within a Youth-Led HIV Prevention Program
This chapter discusses the use of poststructural theory as a way to inform ways of working with marginalized young people from population groups...
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The Impact of Multilateral Investment Treaties in Resolving Investment Disputes in the Energy and Mining Sectors: Lessons from the European Experience
With energy investment disputes increasingly on the rise, is the modern regime of foreign investment protection capable of producing effective...
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The Long Road to Becoming a Farmer in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia
This chapter presents the trajectories of young men and women into farming and is based on the authors’ research in two villages in Kebumen Regency,...
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“I Had to Bear This Burden”: Youth Transcending Constraints to Become Farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India
In the context of a wider trend in India of young people’s reluctance to pursue farming as an occupation, the experience of young farmers in Madhya...
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Pluriactive and Plurilocal: Young People’s Pathways Out of and into Farming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
In this chapter we explore young people’s spatial and sectoral mobility, specifically their trajectories out of and into farming, in the Javanese...
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Youth and Agriculture in Indonesia
This chapter reflects on the changing place of young men and women in Indonesian agriculture, based on available secondary sources and some...
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Young Farmers’ Difficulties and Adaptations in Agriculture: A Case Study from a Mountainous Town in Sichuan Province, Southwest China
The unprecedented rural labour migration in China has resulted in the transformation of rural areas and the entire rural society. Migrant workers...
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Conclusion: Youth Aspirations, Trajectories, and Farming Futures
This book commenced with a question of global importance: in a world in which farming populations are ageing, who is going to provide the planet’s...
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Engineers and the Project of Development: A Historical Review of Critical Events and Concepts
This chapter begins with a reflection on the language and terms used within the project of development. It reminds students to be thoughtful and...
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From Listening to Community Ownership
This chapter focuses the community engagement conversation on elements of community ownership and how engineering teams and students can bring this...
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Conclusion
This chapter concludes the study by providing a summary of the historical account. It restates the major developments in the three periods of time,...
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The Leap Forward: The Benefits and Challenges of the Institutionalization of Macedonian Sociology (1960s–Early 1970s)
The processes of professionalizing and institutionalizing Macedonian sociology progressed from the earliest such initiatives in the mid-1950s, the...
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The Unfulfilled Promises of San Rafael Park
This chapter explores the dynamics between third nature and scarcity in abundance through the case of land in La Calera. Specifically, it focuses on...