
In Search of a Future
Youth, Aspiration, and Mobility in Nepal
Andrea Koelbel(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 14. October 2020
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-012451-9 (ISBN)
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.
Series: ESSA
this series seeks to problematize our understanding of education, as process, in the context of the making of citizens in a 'modern', changing South Asia. Education has been examined in its institutional avatar ad nauseam. Such efforts view educational institutions as organizations that transmit and evaluate educational knowledge and provide certification based on academic achievement. The causes of inequality, located in gender, caste, class and religion have perhaps been examined in this context as these shape individuals' lives in multiple and complex ways. At the same time, educational institutions are spaces, as processes, through which participants bring meaning and create worlds that hugely impact their personal and intellectual development.
Other books in the Series include:
Social, Ecological and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education: J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
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.
Series: ESSA
this series seeks to problematize our understanding of education, as process, in the context of the making of citizens in a 'modern', changing South Asia. Education has been examined in its institutional avatar ad nauseam. Such efforts view educational institutions as organizations that transmit and evaluate educational knowledge and provide certification based on academic achievement. The causes of inequality, located in gender, caste, class and religion have perhaps been examined in this context as these shape individuals' lives in multiple and complex ways. At the same time, educational institutions are spaces, as processes, through which participants bring meaning and create worlds that hugely impact their personal and intellectual development.
Other books in the Series include:
Social, Ecological and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education: J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Images, 5
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-012451-9 (9780190124519)
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08/2020
1st Edition
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Persons
Andrea Koelbel is a research fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Technology, Berlin, Germany.
Author
Research FellowResearch Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Technology, Berlin
Series Editor
Content
- 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