Volume 40. Issue 1: Intergenerational Transmissions: Cultivating Agency?
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Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions: Cultivating Children's Agency?
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Excerpts from Focus Group Discussions: Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)The focus groups on which these excerpts are based were conducted in 2007 as part of research by the BRAC Research and Evaluation Division with Save the Children UK Bangladesh support into perceptions and practices of child ... -
Rethinking Intergenerational Transmission(s): Does a Wellbeing Lens Help? The Case of Nutrition
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)The intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty is a well?established conceptualisation of how poverty is reproduced over time. IGT has been a popular approach but as currently constructed it tends to be overly ... -
Imagining the Future: Children, Education and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Urban Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)Failure to invest in children's education is widely recognised as a key mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the same time, rising levels of education among different socioeconomic groups in ... -
The Boys Left Behind: Where Public Policy has Failed to Prevent Child Labour in Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)Poor boys have been left behind by public policy efforts to expand school access in Bangladesh – the same policies which have succeeded in attracting girls to school. This article draws on original research to explore the ... -
Perspectives on Intergenerational Vulnerability for Adolescents Affected by HIV: An Argument for Voice and Visibility
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)The authors address the dynamic role of adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. They analyse evidence for how intergenerational dynamics interact with HIV?related vulnerability, through the likely influence of being AIDS?affected ... -
Ali: Does He Have a ‘Choice’?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)The life story of a 16 year?old boy, Ali, provides a glimpse into the livelihood choices of children living in urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Until recently, Ali's life and his community was characterised by urban crime ... -
Excerpt from , IDS Working Paper 297
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Troublesome Masculinities: Masculinity in Trouble
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)This article explores the notion of troublesome' masculinities that characterise much of the policy discourse and programme thinking on problems of young men and gender. It critiques the dimorphism that shapes this view ... -
Young Boys Learning to Fear, Hate and Harm: A Recipe for Sustaining Tribal Political Violence in Jamaica's Garrisons
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)This article is part of a larger report, ‘Young Birds that Know Storm: Life Experiences of Boys of Ages 6–8 Years Living in Communities of Extreme Poverty and Violence’. Data from life histories of Jamaican inner city boys ... -
Children in War: Reintegrating Child Soldiers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)This article discusses the issue of child soldiers by weaving together the threads of experiences of violence, terror and survival narrated by children directly involved in armed conflicts. Despite the fact that the majority ... -
Disrupting Pathways of Intergenerational Transmissions of Gender Ideology and Practice
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)This article examines pathways to intergenerational transmission of gender values, norms and ideology with a particular focus on contexts where there is a strong intersection between gender and poverty. The first part ... -
Intergenerational Transmissions and Race Inequalities: Why the Subjective and Relational Matter
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)In this article, I highlight some of the ways in which racial perceptions and inequalities can become ingrained; how these inequalities are transmitted across generations; the factors and conditions that can disrupt ... -
Taking the Long View: What Does a Child Focus Add to Social Protection?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)Recognising that many indicators of vulnerability among children, such as malnutrition or poor educational performance, might reflect intergenerational problems has profound implications for the design and implementation ... -
Transformative Education and its Potential for Changing the Lives of Children in Disempowering Contexts
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/01/2009)For millions of children around the world, disempowerment is not just a part of life – it becomes their life, to the point where any alternative way of living may be unimaginable to them. Intergenerational transmission ... -
Notes on Contributors
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