Richard Maclure
Biographic Data
| ID | 89750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Maclure |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclure |
| SIGNATURE | MACLURE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Youngest Citizens: Children's Rights in Latin America by Amy Risley (review)
Book Review: The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Latin America 183 The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Latin America Amy Risley (2020) New York & Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, 138 pages $160.00 USD (hardcover), $46.95 USD (softcover), ISBN 9781138745438 In this excellent book, Amy Risley provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of children’s rights in Latin America. In nine well-referenced chapters, the author casts a con…
Youth Reflexivity as Participatory Research in Senegal: A Field Study of Reciprocal Learning and Incremental Transformations
There is now widespread appreciation that children are capable of functioning as key protagonists of their own development, and that this capacity can be enhanced if they are afforded opportunities to participate in forms of inquiry that stimulate reflexivity amongst themselves and with outside researchers. There is likewise common acceptance that youth participation in research on issues that relate to their well-being can contribute to evidence…
Youth Social Capital Formation in Nicaragua
In many Latin American countries, stringent crime control measures have failed to stem high levels of youth crime and violence. As a consequence, there is burgeoning interest in the notion of youth social capital as a basis for policies and programmes designed to enhance the rights of young people living in circumstances of poverty and risk. Yet there is little knowledge of existing sources of youth social capital in poor urban communities in Lat…
Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for civil-society participation at the national level, this research suggests …
Reconstruction versus transformation: Post-war education and the struggle for gender equity in Sierra Leone
Turnings and Epiphanies: Militarization, Life Histories, and the Making and Unmaking of Two Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
The militarization of children and their active participation in conflict continues to be a global phenomenon affecting hundreds of thousands of children. Yet many of the realities of child soldiery remain unclear and continue to be under-researched. In particular, the process of militarization and how it impinges on the identities and actions of children who are drawn into conflict remains poorly understood. Similarly, the experiences of childre…
Pragmatism or Transformation? Participatory Evaluation of a Humanitarian Education Project in Sierra Leone
Although participatory evaluation (PE) is now widely acknowledged as a potentially useful way to assess international development assistance programs, there is little documented evidence of participatory approaches being incorporated into evaluations of humanitarian aid for populations living in emergency situations. Two principal streams, practical participatory evaluation (P-PE) and transformative participatory evaluation (T-PE), are pertinent …
I Didn't Want to Die So I Joined Them: Structuration and the Process of Becoming Boy Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Child soldiers are generally portrayed either as victims of structural forces that are beyond their control and comprehension or as knowing agents of mayhem in search of revolutionary change or personal gain. Yet these singular perspectives are bedevilled by their dialectical limitations, the one overlooking capacities of individual will, the other prone to discounting historical and socioeconomic contexts. In this paper, through the lens of stru…
Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence
Myriam Denov, Richard MacLure, Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence, Anthropologica, Vol. 48, No. 1, War and Peace / La guerre et la paix (2006), pp. 73-85
Youth Gangs in Nicaragua: Gang Membership as Structured Individualization
In Nicaragua the rise of urban youth gangs has led the government to adopt a crime‐control approach that focuses on containing adolescent violence. Yet efforts to foil youth gangs have been ineffectual, largely because the nature of gang membership is little understood. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of youth gang membership in the capital city of Managua. From participant observations and interviews with a cohort of you…
Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua
Since Nicaragua's endorsement of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the legislative passage of its own Code of Childhood and Adolescence, improvements in the welfare of marginalised youth have depended largely on community-based actions that are sponsored by NGOs and civic groups, many of which function in tangent with municipal government authorities and international aid agencies. In this article we review three community initiati…
Young offender diversion in Canada: Tensions and contradictions of social policy appropriation
Under Canada’s Young Offenders Act (YOA, 1984–2003), the concept of diversion became an important feature of the youth justice system. Consisting of the formally constituted Alternative Measures program and other more informally administered procedures, diversion was developed as a means of responding to youth aged 12–17 years who have committed minor offences while minimizing their risks of stigmatization and recidivism. Although the YOA was sub…
Children's rights as residual social policy in Nicaragua: State priorities and the Code of Childhood and Adolescence
In enacting a legislative Code of Childhood and Adolescence in 1998, the Nicaraguan state formally endorsed the ideal of children's rights as being a central concern of public policy. Yet, the state has done little to fulfil this commitment. In part this is the result of severe fiscal constraints, which have led to reduced public expenditures and the downsizing of social services, especially those directed towards children and youth. In part, how…
Amending Youth Justice Policy in Canada: Discourse, Mediation and Ambiguity
In postmodern democratic societies, mediation of diverse discourses on critical social issues has become an essential means by which states legitimate social policy formulation. Yet because discourse can serve as an instrument of both power and resistance, mediation is a process that often entails language that is ambivalent and simplified. In Canada, since the mid‐1980s successive federal governments have attempted to mediate debate concerning a…
Non-Government Organizations and the Contradictions of Animation Rurale: Questioning the Ideal of Community Self-Reliance in Burkina Faso
In francophone Africa animation rurale is a method of intervention which generally aims to foster community self-reliance through non-formal education and selective material and technical service support. A study of three foreign-funded NGO programmes in Burkina Faso reveals, however, that animation rurale tends to stimulate client-patron relations between rural communities and their aid agency benefactors, a consequence of the structures and met…
Misplaced Assumptions of Decentralization and Participation in Rural Communities: Primary school reform in Burkina Faso
The Challenge of Participatory Research and Its Implications for Funding Agencies
In an age of growing skepticism about the development industry and about the appropriateness of the predominant paradigms of modernisation and immutable technology transfer, many scholars and practitioners are now attempting to re‐define approaches to development (e.g. Taylor, 1979; Galtung et al., 1980; Chambers, 1986; World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). Out of this general effort to re‐consider the ways in which social and e…
I Didn't Want to Die So I Joined Them: Structuration and the Process of Becoming Boy Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Child soldiers are generally portrayed either as victims of structural forces that are beyond their control and comprehension or as knowing agents of mayhem in search of revolutionary change or personal gain. Yet these singular perspectives are bedevilled by their dialectical limitations, the one overlooking capacities of individual will, the other prone to discounting historical and socioeconomic contexts. In this paper, through the lens of stru…
Reconstruction versus transformation: Post-war education and the struggle for gender equity in Sierra Leone
Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence
Myriam Denov, Richard MacLure, Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence, Anthropologica, Vol. 48, No. 1, War and Peace / La guerre et la paix (2006), pp. 73-85
Turnings and Epiphanies: Militarization, Life Histories, and the Making and Unmaking of Two Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
The militarization of children and their active participation in conflict continues to be a global phenomenon affecting hundreds of thousands of children. Yet many of the realities of child soldiery remain unclear and continue to be under-researched. In particular, the process of militarization and how it impinges on the identities and actions of children who are drawn into conflict remains poorly understood. Similarly, the experiences of childre…
Misplaced Assumptions of Decentralization and Participation in Rural Communities: Primary school reform in Burkina Faso
Youth Gangs in Nicaragua: Gang Membership as Structured Individualization
In Nicaragua the rise of urban youth gangs has led the government to adopt a crime‐control approach that focuses on containing adolescent violence. Yet efforts to foil youth gangs have been ineffectual, largely because the nature of gang membership is little understood. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of youth gang membership in the capital city of Managua. From participant observations and interviews with a cohort of you…
Children's rights as residual social policy in Nicaragua: State priorities and the Code of Childhood and Adolescence
In enacting a legislative Code of Childhood and Adolescence in 1998, the Nicaraguan state formally endorsed the ideal of children's rights as being a central concern of public policy. Yet, the state has done little to fulfil this commitment. In part this is the result of severe fiscal constraints, which have led to reduced public expenditures and the downsizing of social services, especially those directed towards children and youth. In part, how…
Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for civil-society participation at the national level, this research suggests …
Youth Social Capital Formation in Nicaragua
In many Latin American countries, stringent crime control measures have failed to stem high levels of youth crime and violence. As a consequence, there is burgeoning interest in the notion of youth social capital as a basis for policies and programmes designed to enhance the rights of young people living in circumstances of poverty and risk. Yet there is little knowledge of existing sources of youth social capital in poor urban communities in Lat…
Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua
Since Nicaragua's endorsement of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the legislative passage of its own Code of Childhood and Adolescence, improvements in the welfare of marginalised youth have depended largely on community-based actions that are sponsored by NGOs and civic groups, many of which function in tangent with municipal government authorities and international aid agencies. In this article we review three community initiati…
The Challenge of Participatory Research and Its Implications for Funding Agencies
In an age of growing skepticism about the development industry and about the appropriateness of the predominant paradigms of modernisation and immutable technology transfer, many scholars and practitioners are now attempting to re‐define approaches to development (e.g. Taylor, 1979; Galtung et al., 1980; Chambers, 1986; World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). Out of this general effort to re‐consider the ways in which social and e…
Youth Reflexivity as Participatory Research in Senegal: A Field Study of Reciprocal Learning and Incremental Transformations
There is now widespread appreciation that children are capable of functioning as key protagonists of their own development, and that this capacity can be enhanced if they are afforded opportunities to participate in forms of inquiry that stimulate reflexivity amongst themselves and with outside researchers. There is likewise common acceptance that youth participation in research on issues that relate to their well-being can contribute to evidence…
Young offender diversion in Canada: Tensions and contradictions of social policy appropriation
Under Canada’s Young Offenders Act (YOA, 1984–2003), the concept of diversion became an important feature of the youth justice system. Consisting of the formally constituted Alternative Measures program and other more informally administered procedures, diversion was developed as a means of responding to youth aged 12–17 years who have committed minor offences while minimizing their risks of stigmatization and recidivism. Although the YOA was sub…
Non-Government Organizations and the Contradictions of Animation Rurale: Questioning the Ideal of Community Self-Reliance in Burkina Faso
In francophone Africa animation rurale is a method of intervention which generally aims to foster community self-reliance through non-formal education and selective material and technical service support. A study of three foreign-funded NGO programmes in Burkina Faso reveals, however, that animation rurale tends to stimulate client-patron relations between rural communities and their aid agency benefactors, a consequence of the structures and met…
The Challenge of Participatory Research and Its Implications for Funding Agencies
In an age of growing skepticism about the development industry and about the appropriateness of the predominant paradigms of modernisation and immutable technology transfer, many scholars and practitioners are now attempting to re‐define approaches to development (e.g. Taylor, 1979; Galtung et al., 1980; Chambers, 1986; World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). Out of this general effort to re‐consider the ways in which social and e…
Misplaced Assumptions of Decentralization and Participation in Rural Communities: Primary school reform in Burkina Faso
Non-Government Organizations and the Contradictions of Animation Rurale: Questioning the Ideal of Community Self-Reliance in Burkina Faso
In francophone Africa animation rurale is a method of intervention which generally aims to foster community self-reliance through non-formal education and selective material and technical service support. A study of three foreign-funded NGO programmes in Burkina Faso reveals, however, that animation rurale tends to stimulate client-patron relations between rural communities and their aid agency benefactors, a consequence of the structures and met…
Amending Youth Justice Policy in Canada: Discourse, Mediation and Ambiguity
In postmodern democratic societies, mediation of diverse discourses on critical social issues has become an essential means by which states legitimate social policy formulation. Yet because discourse can serve as an instrument of both power and resistance, mediation is a process that often entails language that is ambivalent and simplified. In Canada, since the mid‐1980s successive federal governments have attempted to mediate debate concerning a…
Young offender diversion in Canada: Tensions and contradictions of social policy appropriation
Under Canada’s Young Offenders Act (YOA, 1984–2003), the concept of diversion became an important feature of the youth justice system. Consisting of the formally constituted Alternative Measures program and other more informally administered procedures, diversion was developed as a means of responding to youth aged 12–17 years who have committed minor offences while minimizing their risks of stigmatization and recidivism. Although the YOA was sub…
Children's rights as residual social policy in Nicaragua: State priorities and the Code of Childhood and Adolescence
In enacting a legislative Code of Childhood and Adolescence in 1998, the Nicaraguan state formally endorsed the ideal of children's rights as being a central concern of public policy. Yet, the state has done little to fulfil this commitment. In part this is the result of severe fiscal constraints, which have led to reduced public expenditures and the downsizing of social services, especially those directed towards children and youth. In part, how…
Youth Gangs in Nicaragua: Gang Membership as Structured Individualization
In Nicaragua the rise of urban youth gangs has led the government to adopt a crime‐control approach that focuses on containing adolescent violence. Yet efforts to foil youth gangs have been ineffectual, largely because the nature of gang membership is little understood. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of youth gang membership in the capital city of Managua. From participant observations and interviews with a cohort of you…
Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua
Since Nicaragua's endorsement of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the legislative passage of its own Code of Childhood and Adolescence, improvements in the welfare of marginalised youth have depended largely on community-based actions that are sponsored by NGOs and civic groups, many of which function in tangent with municipal government authorities and international aid agencies. In this article we review three community initiati…
Pragmatism or Transformation? Participatory Evaluation of a Humanitarian Education Project in Sierra Leone
Although participatory evaluation (PE) is now widely acknowledged as a potentially useful way to assess international development assistance programs, there is little documented evidence of participatory approaches being incorporated into evaluations of humanitarian aid for populations living in emergency situations. Two principal streams, practical participatory evaluation (P-PE) and transformative participatory evaluation (T-PE), are pertinent …
I Didn't Want to Die So I Joined Them: Structuration and the Process of Becoming Boy Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Child soldiers are generally portrayed either as victims of structural forces that are beyond their control and comprehension or as knowing agents of mayhem in search of revolutionary change or personal gain. Yet these singular perspectives are bedevilled by their dialectical limitations, the one overlooking capacities of individual will, the other prone to discounting historical and socioeconomic contexts. In this paper, through the lens of stru…
Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence
Myriam Denov, Richard MacLure, Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone's Conflict: Experiences and Perspectives in a Culture of Violence, Anthropologica, Vol. 48, No. 1, War and Peace / La guerre et la paix (2006), pp. 73-85
Turnings and Epiphanies: Militarization, Life Histories, and the Making and Unmaking of Two Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
The militarization of children and their active participation in conflict continues to be a global phenomenon affecting hundreds of thousands of children. Yet many of the realities of child soldiery remain unclear and continue to be under-researched. In particular, the process of militarization and how it impinges on the identities and actions of children who are drawn into conflict remains poorly understood. Similarly, the experiences of childre…
Reconstruction versus transformation: Post-war education and the struggle for gender equity in Sierra Leone
Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for civil-society participation at the national level, this research suggests …
Youth Social Capital Formation in Nicaragua
In many Latin American countries, stringent crime control measures have failed to stem high levels of youth crime and violence. As a consequence, there is burgeoning interest in the notion of youth social capital as a basis for policies and programmes designed to enhance the rights of young people living in circumstances of poverty and risk. Yet there is little knowledge of existing sources of youth social capital in poor urban communities in Lat…
Youth Reflexivity as Participatory Research in Senegal: A Field Study of Reciprocal Learning and Incremental Transformations
There is now widespread appreciation that children are capable of functioning as key protagonists of their own development, and that this capacity can be enhanced if they are afforded opportunities to participate in forms of inquiry that stimulate reflexivity amongst themselves and with outside researchers. There is likewise common acceptance that youth participation in research on issues that relate to their well-being can contribute to evidence…
The Youngest Citizens: Children's Rights in Latin America by Amy Risley (review)
Book Review: The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Latin America 183 The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Latin America Amy Risley (2020) New York & Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, 138 pages $160.00 USD (hardcover), $46.95 USD (softcover), ISBN 9781138745438 In this excellent book, Amy Risley provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of children’s rights in Latin America. In nine well-referenced chapters, the author casts a con…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)