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- Convenors:
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Kate Pincock
(ODI)
Nicola Jones (ODI GAGE)
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- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
Polycrises are contributing to deepening inequalities, worsening the precarity and marginalisation of young people globally. This panel invites papers that explore the uneven effects of polycrises on young people in developing countries.
Long Abstract:
Around the world, a combination of health and climate emergencies, the imposition of stringent austerity measures, and growing political polarisation are retrenching inequalities which prior to 2019 had been declining for three decades. Studies of young people in the global South have long documented the ways that inequality, and associated poverty, precarity, and increasingly limited opportunities for decent work, shape trajectories into adulthood.
While many young people maintain aspirations for a better life and have been active in demanding that governments pursue sustainable, equitable and inclusive development, it also appears that economic and political marginalisation and uneven opportunities to actualise aspirations for the future is leading to disillusionment and anger among young people. However, there has been limited attention within development studies as to the ways that interpersonal and structural inequalities may be reinforced, reproduced or renegotiated amidst socioeconomic and political upheaval, nor the consequences for young people’s envisioning of future possibilities.
This panel invites papers which explore the uneven effects of polycrises on young lives in the global South. Submissions might explore how polycrises in specific country contexts are affecting the outcomes, opportunities, and trajectories of different groups of young people. This may include attention to how gender, location, or citizenship status mediates young people’s experiences of crises. Proposed papers might also explore how growing inequalities are shaping young people’s aspirations, and the consequences for development. Authors may also reflect upon how development efforts might improve young lives in ways that directly engage with growing inequalities amid crises.