Youth, gender and the capabilities approach to development : rethinking opportunities and agency from a human development perspective

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Youth, gender and the capabilities approach to development : rethinking opportunities and agency from a human development perspective

edited by Aurora Lopez-Fogues and Firdevs Melis Cin

(Routledge explorations in development studies)

Routledge, 2018

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Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the intersection between capabilities, youth and gender, in recognition of the fact that without gender equality, capabilities cannot be universal and development strategies are likely to fail to achieve their full objectives. Within the framework of the human development and capabilities approach, Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development focuses on examples in the areas of education, political spaces, and social practices that confront inequality and injustice head on, by seeking to advance young people's capabilities and their agency to make valuable life plans. The book focuses how youth policies and issues can be approached globally from a capabilities-friendly perspective; arguing for the promotion of freedoms and opportunities both in educational and political spheres, with the aim of developing a more just world. With a range of studies from multiple and diverse national contexts, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Tanzania, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Colombia, India and Argentina, this important multidisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers within youth studies, gender studies and development studies, as well as to policy makers and NGOs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Aurora Lopez-Fogues and Firdevs Melis Cin PART I: Aspirations and agency: issues of gender and justice in the educational programs and spheres Chapter 1 - Human capabilities and gender equality: what do higher education students have reason to value? Melanie Walker and Sonja Loots Chapter 2 - Well-being freedoms to construct one's educational career: narratives from Tanzania and South Africa Mari-Anne Okkolin and Bhavani Ramamoorthi Chapter 3 - A capability approach to participatory research platforms for young black women in South African higher education Talita Calitz Chapter 4 - Young Academics, Gender, and Chairs at Universities in Russia Natalia Karmaeva Chapter 5 Capitals and Capabilities: Social Reproduction of Inequalities in Sripuram Laksh Venkataraman PART II: Political & Public Space: Development and enactment of agency and capabilities for change and justice Chapter 6 - Ciudad Comuna: Re-signifying territory based on communitarian communication Angela Garces Montoya and Leonardo Jimenez Garcia Chapter 7 - If you can see me, then I am here. Using participatory video in researching young people's aspirations Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Alejandra Boni Aristizabal, Gynna Millan Franco and Sergio Belda-Miquel Chapter 8 - Gender, Subjective well-being and capabilities: an application to the Moroccan Youth El Mahdi Khouaja , Noemie Olympio and Gwendoline Promsopha Chapter 9 - Agency, Forced Migration and Social Capital: The case of Young Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey Zeynep Balcioglu Chapter 10 - Scrutinising the Motivation of Women: Stories of Resistance to the 2016 Coup D'etat Attempt in Turkey Pinar Uyan-Semerci and Firdevs Melis Cin

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