Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia INTRODUCTION

被引:6
作者
Bulloch, Hannah C. M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Sch Social Sci, Social Anthropol Programme, Dunedin, New Zealand
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Intergenerational Relations; Family; Gender; Youth; Development; Socio-economic Mobility; Dreams; Hope; Transitions; Life Scripts; YOUTH TRANSITIONS; ADULTHOOD; EDUCATION;
D O I
10.1080/14442213.2021.1974079
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Articles in this special issue probe the relationships between strategies for upward socio-economic mobility and intergenerational aspirations in Asia. With capitalism, urbanisation, mass media, education and migration increasing throughout Asia, now is a time of flux in opportunities and subjectivities. Such changes are lived as deeply personal and relational. Young people are often instrumental to familial 'development' strategies, and this effects divisions of labour, norms of moral economy, life course ideals and distributions of power. At the same time, media, education and development discourses often exhort people to author autonomous destinies through entrepreneurialism, career and consumerism. Contributors to this issue, 'Development, Gender and Intergenerational Aspirations in Asia', ethnographically explore how old and new dreams-some emphasising autonomy, while others stress familial obligation-conjoin, elide and compete, and how people negotiate associated life course expectations. We also show how dreams find limits, requiring redreaming and rerouting.
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页码:363 / 379
页数:17
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