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This book investigates to what extent young people can access fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations. The book is positioned in the intersection between capabilities, youth and gender.
List of contents
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 , Noémie 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’état Attempt in Turkey
Pınar Uyan-Semerci and Firdevs Melis Cin
About the author
Aurora Lopez-Fogues is a teacher in a Vocational Education and Training college, researcher in INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) and an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
Firdevs Melis Cin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the Open University, UK.
Summary
This book investigates to what extent young people can access fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations. The book is positioned in the intersection between capabilities, youth and gender.
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This is an exciting new book. Written largely by emerging researchers from several countries and disciplines, the volume treads a careful and principled line between reflecting on the ways in which young people, especially young women, face a hostile world and highlighting ways in which young people are agents for positive change.
Professor Simon McGrath PhD FAcSS FRSA, University of Nottingham, UNESCO Chair in the Political Economy of Education, Associate Head of School.
For those who want to feel inspired by the possibilities for young people everywhere to live flourishing lives, this is essential reading. Case studies from all over the world show the potential of thinking about youth, gender and social justice through the prism of expanding freedom and opportunities to make life choices.
Monica McLean, Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham.
This is a timely volume which explores how education becomes both an individual and a public good that benefits communities and nations. The editors have done a wonderful job in drawing together the gendered experiences of young people from across the globe. The book is a necessary reference point for those interested in the potential of education in delivering global development.
Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration at The Open University.
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development draws on a variety of case studies (from South Africa, Tanzania, Russia, India, Columbia, Spain, Morocco and Turkey) to bring contemporary development issues to the fore. Cutting across and beyond gender, culture, politics and economic spheres, this edited collection provides a comprehensive understanding of diverse global and complex experiences of youth. In so doing, it provides a foundation from which to critically reflect on the effects of both individual and group capabilities and agency.
Faith Mkwananzi, Higher Education and Human Development Research Group, University of the Free State, South Africa
