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View article: Blurring belongings: navigating Indian and Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence in India
Blurring belongings: navigating Indian and Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence in India Open
This paper is based on empirical research on the discursive production and marginalisation of Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence and civil unrest in India. We examine the historical naming of the Adivasis in national and …
View article: Children’s Work in African Agriculture
Children’s Work in African Agriculture Open
10.3 Average labour requirements on cocoa farms 10.4 Percentage of children involved in different types of work in the past 12 months (all agricultural households) 10.5 Working hours in cocoa production by age and gender, 2018-19 (cocoa gr…
View article: Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Open
This chapter situates children’s work within a grounded and holistic understanding of where work, learning and harm occur across the domains of children’s lives: household, work places and school. It introduces a relational, analytical fra…
View article: Rural youth in southern Nigeria: Fractured lives and ambitious futures
Rural youth in southern Nigeria: Fractured lives and ambitious futures Open
This article draws on recent research (2017–20) into the livelihoods and imagined futures of rural youth in four communities in southern Nigeria. The research involved observations, sex-segregated focus group discussions and individual int…
View article: Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub‑Saharan Africa
Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub‑Saharan Africa Open
This paper proposes a dynamic conceptual framework – the edu-workscape – for understanding how rural children in sub-Saharan Africa navigate three key gendered social arenas: the household, school and workplaces. Focusing on school, in par…
View article: Beyond the Modern: Muslim Youth Imaginaries of Nation in Northern Nigeria
Beyond the Modern: Muslim Youth Imaginaries of Nation in Northern Nigeria Open
The rise of different nationalisms in an increasingly unequal and neoliberal world makes predictions about the dawn of a post-national, global society seem both incongruous and fraught with Eurocentric occlusions. In response, we present a…
View article: Troubled spaces: negotiating school–community boundaries in northern Nigeria
Troubled spaces: negotiating school–community boundaries in northern Nigeria Open
Community participation is a vital component of the educational decentralisation policies that are now widespread in Nigeria. In this paper, we explore school–community relations in different localities in northern Nigeria, where there is …
View article: Continuing in the shadows of colonialism: The educational experiences of the African Child in Ghana
Continuing in the shadows of colonialism: The educational experiences of the African Child in Ghana Open
In this paper, we draw on a recent ethnographic study in a rural primary school to illustrate the ways that vestiges of colonialism remain deeply imbricated in contemporary schooling in Ghana. In reference to the history of education, we u…
View article: Troubling Muslim Youth Identities: Nation, Religion, Gender
Troubling Muslim Youth Identities: Nation, Religion, Gender Open
This book explores the production of Muslim youth identities, with respect to nation, religion and gender in Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria and Lebanon. As Muslim-majority, post-colonial states with significant youth populations, these countri…
View article: Preschool attendance: a multilevel analysis of individual and community factors in 21 low and middle-income countries
Preschool attendance: a multilevel analysis of individual and community factors in 21 low and middle-income countries Open
This paper investigates how preschool attendance is shaped by individual and community factors for 71,806 children from 14,303 communities in 21 low-to middle-income countries using a multilevel analysis. We assess how these mechanisms var…
View article: Youth researching youth: methodological reflections from a multi-country study of youth claiming rights to education and sexual reproductive health
Youth researching youth: methodological reflections from a multi-country study of youth claiming rights to education and sexual reproductive health Open
This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated. In these discussio…