R Huijsmans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 32507 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Huijsmans |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Huijsmans |
| ASSINATURA | HUIJSMANS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1684-2694 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 236 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies
The infrastructuring of young adults' mobility trajectories
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming
This article explores the generational reproduction of farming and agrarian relations in the Indonesian islands of Java and Flores. Concentrating mainly on women and men who have managed, or are trying, to establish farming livelihoods, we ask how, why and when do young rural people find-or fail to find-pathways into farming? And in today's increasingly diversified rural contexts, how far do land transmission processes between the generations con…
Sacrifice, suffering and hope
In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded understanding of the affective orientations …
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these uncertainties need to be responded to, both by institutions and individuals, so that young people are prepared for an unpredictable and changing world. 'Raising aspirations' is expected to play an instrumental role in preparing young people to confront a co…
Making markets gendered
In this article we develop the theoretical premise that platform companies are in the business of making markets from a gender perspective. We do so in relation to Kathmandu’s ride-sharing platforms which have emerged in a context of changing gender regimes. Concerns about women’s safety in public transport and recognition of women as a sizeable market-share has led one platform to build gender into its digital interface. For the other platform, …
“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London
Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos
Drawing on ethnographic research in northern Laos, this article analyses articulations of a good life in primary school textbook imagery and how this resonates with everyday life in rural upland communities. This is contrasted with children’s sketches of a good life found in the classrooms and ethnographic accounts of moments of ‘good time’ in the context of rural schooling. It is argued that these latter moments constitute brief instances of a g…
Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course
Drawing on life history interviews conducted in Indian and Indonesian study sites, we tease out the social production of aspirations in the process of becoming a farmer. We show the power of a doxic logic in which schooling is regarded as the pathway out of farming, towards a future of non-manual, salaried employment. Among rural youth this doxic logic produces broadly defined aspiration such as ‘completing education’, and ‘getting a job’. In the…
Introduction
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people's lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on …
Monetised childhoods
In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children’s lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an element of the informal apprenticeships through which Gamo children learn to weave. Qualitative research…
Becoming mobile and growing up
Drawing on ethnographic research with Lao village youth in a Lao–Thai borderland, I argue that their involvement in cross‐border day labour illuminates the interplay between the dynamics of “becoming mobile” and “growing up.” Despite the autonomy Lao village youth displays in cross‐border day labour, the practice is shaped by, situated within, and at the same time reproduces structural relations of inequality constituting the borderland. The soci…
Knowledge that moves’
Migration is an emotional experience, and so is the policy and research work associated with it. Yet, discussions on emotions and affect remain largely absent from the literature on children and youth migration. Writing auto-ethnographically, I revisit my research with/about young Lao migrants with the aim of teasing out how emotions, of young migrants, of my own and in policy making emerged in relation to various dimensions of young people’s mig…
Exploring the “Age Question” in Research on Young Migrants in Southeast Asia
Recent years have seen a blossoming of research on children and young people as migrants in the Southeast Asian context. This article takes the form of a stock-taking exercise of this rapidly growing new field of research. Yet, it also asks "what's new?" thereby contrasting and comparing contemporary scholarship with earlier work on young people and mobility in the region. The concept of age is central to the exercise of studying children and you…
Children
Children: Ethnographic Encounters is the latest title in the Bloomsbury series Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge (series editor John Borneman). In line with the series mandate, it brings together a set of essays discussing material that too often is left out of published work: reflections on personal experiences of doing ethnographic fieldwork. All contributions are written in a highly accessible manner, free from disciplinary …
Rural youth and urban-based vocational training
The policy phrase Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia (and beyond). Despite numerous policy reports, little is known about how vocational training and education work as sites of practice. This is especially true for informal household-based apprenticeships and privately organized, commercial classroom-based training. Yet, these latter arrangements are numerous, an integral part of…
Generationing Development
This introduction chapter sets out the overall framework informing the volume and surveys the relevant literature. It lays out a relational approach to studying children, youth and development with age and generation as key concepts. This chapter introduces and develops these central ideas, and their various interpretations, and links them to the contributing chapters
Class work
Class Work is an ethnography of vocational education (VE) in contemporary urban China. It is based on a full year (2007–2008) of participant observation at two secondary VE schools in the city of N
Decentring the History of the Idea of Children’s Rights
Book review of: __S. Balagopalan__ _Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India_, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p. 237. isbn 978-0-230-29642-8 (hardcover)/isbn 978-1-137-31679-0 (eBook). $110 (hardcover)/$79.99 (eBook). __H. Morrison__ _Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt_, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 176. isbn 978-1-137-43277-3 (hardcover)/isbn 978-1-137-4327…
Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland
Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remoteLao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing onBenedictAnderson'sImagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of…
Reconceptualizing children's rights in international development
Reconceptualizing children’s rights in international development: living rights, social justice, translations, edited by Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 318 pp., $99.00 (hardback only), ISBN 9781107031517
Theorising Age and Generation in Development
Youth gangs and street children
With Youth Gangs & Street Children Paula Heinonen has written a remarkable book that deserves a wide readership. It is based on six years of ethnographic research (1995–2001) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, conducted whilst Heinonen was based at the University of Addis Ababa, complemented with various snippets of data from the years after. The book differs from much of what has been written about young people on the street in that it brings together re…
Doing Gendered Age’
In this article I analyse the reconfiguration of the intersection of relations of gender and age manifesting between older mothers and their migrant daughters. For this I study the negotiation of care work between differently positioned women, drawing on material from Lao PDR and Thailand. Theoretically I draw on the constructivist notion of ‘doing gendered age’, which allows us to integrate the performance of gender–age subject positions with st…
Beyond compartmentalization
Based on fieldwork material from Lao People's Democratic Republic, this paper introduces an analytical framework that transcends compartmentalized approaches towards migration involving young people. The notions of fluid and institutionalized forms of migration illuminate key differences and commonalities in the relational fabric underpinning empirically diverse migration scenarios. Applying this framework to the role of networks in becoming a yo…
Introduction
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people's lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on …
Becoming a young migrant or stayer seen through the lens of ‘householding’
Child Trafficking
This article presents a critique to the human trafficking discourse in relation to child migration, based on data obtained from the anti-trafficking community in the Greater Mekong Sub-region combined with an analysis of secondary material. It also presents a set of qualitative accounts of migration at a young age from Lao PDR and Thailand. On this basis a more theorized, grounded and nuanced perspective on child labour migration is developed. Th…
Theorising Age and Generation in Development
Child Migration and Questions of Agency
Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland
Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remoteLao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing onBenedictAnderson'sImagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of…
Rural youth and urban-based vocational training
The policy phrase Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia (and beyond). Despite numerous policy reports, little is known about how vocational training and education work as sites of practice. This is especially true for informal household-based apprenticeships and privately organized, commercial classroom-based training. Yet, these latter arrangements are numerous, an integral part of…
Children Working Beyond Their Localities
Globally, migration statistics indicate rising numbers of people who have for various reasons left their local community. Of these, a considerable proportion is below the age of 18 and often engaged in some kind of work. Yet, the phenomenon of children working beyond their localities receives little special attention in migration studies or child labour studies. It is, however, increasingly addressed under the label of human trafficking. This art…
Knowledge that moves’
Migration is an emotional experience, and so is the policy and research work associated with it. Yet, discussions on emotions and affect remain largely absent from the literature on children and youth migration. Writing auto-ethnographically, I revisit my research with/about young Lao migrants with the aim of teasing out how emotions, of young migrants, of my own and in policy making emerged in relation to various dimensions of young people’s mig…
Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course
Drawing on life history interviews conducted in Indian and Indonesian study sites, we tease out the social production of aspirations in the process of becoming a farmer. We show the power of a doxic logic in which schooling is regarded as the pathway out of farming, towards a future of non-manual, salaried employment. Among rural youth this doxic logic produces broadly defined aspiration such as ‘completing education’, and ‘getting a job’. In the…
Becoming mobile and growing up
Drawing on ethnographic research with Lao village youth in a Lao–Thai borderland, I argue that their involvement in cross‐border day labour illuminates the interplay between the dynamics of “becoming mobile” and “growing up.” Despite the autonomy Lao village youth displays in cross‐border day labour, the practice is shaped by, situated within, and at the same time reproduces structural relations of inequality constituting the borderland. The soci…
The Theatre of Human Trafficking
Using the Lao PDR as a case study, this paper analyses human trafficking as discourse. Human trafficking is identified as a global discourse that is globalized through a set of powerful relations and actors. Following Appadurai, it is argued that this global discourse is not passively received by local actors such as the Lao state. This demonstrated by unravelling the global–local interactions through which it has entered the Lao social landscape…
The infrastructuring of young adults' mobility trajectories
Sacrifice, suffering and hope
In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded understanding of the affective orientations …
Making markets gendered
In this article we develop the theoretical premise that platform companies are in the business of making markets from a gender perspective. We do so in relation to Kathmandu’s ride-sharing platforms which have emerged in a context of changing gender regimes. Concerns about women’s safety in public transport and recognition of women as a sizeable market-share has led one platform to build gender into its digital interface. For the other platform, …
Class work
Class Work is an ethnography of vocational education (VE) in contemporary urban China. It is based on a full year (2007–2008) of participant observation at two secondary VE schools in the city of N
Rights and wrongs of children's work
Doing Gendered Age’
In this article I analyse the reconfiguration of the intersection of relations of gender and age manifesting between older mothers and their migrant daughters. For this I study the negotiation of care work between differently positioned women, drawing on material from Lao PDR and Thailand. Theoretically I draw on the constructivist notion of ‘doing gendered age’, which allows us to integrate the performance of gender–age subject positions with st…
The emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming
This article explores the generational reproduction of farming and agrarian relations in the Indonesian islands of Java and Flores. Concentrating mainly on women and men who have managed, or are trying, to establish farming livelihoods, we ask how, why and when do young rural people find-or fail to find-pathways into farming? And in today's increasingly diversified rural contexts, how far do land transmission processes between the generations con…
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these uncertainties need to be responded to, both by institutions and individuals, so that young people are prepared for an unpredictable and changing world. 'Raising aspirations' is expected to play an instrumental role in preparing young people to confront a co…
Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos
Drawing on ethnographic research in northern Laos, this article analyses articulations of a good life in primary school textbook imagery and how this resonates with everyday life in rural upland communities. This is contrasted with children’s sketches of a good life found in the classrooms and ethnographic accounts of moments of ‘good time’ in the context of rural schooling. It is argued that these latter moments constitute brief instances of a g…
Youth gangs and street children
With Youth Gangs & Street Children Paula Heinonen has written a remarkable book that deserves a wide readership. It is based on six years of ethnographic research (1995–2001) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, conducted whilst Heinonen was based at the University of Addis Ababa, complemented with various snippets of data from the years after. The book differs from much of what has been written about young people on the street in that it brings together re…
Children Working Beyond Their Localities
Globally, migration statistics indicate rising numbers of people who have for various reasons left their local community. Of these, a considerable proportion is below the age of 18 and often engaged in some kind of work. Yet, the phenomenon of children working beyond their localities receives little special attention in migration studies or child labour studies. It is, however, increasingly addressed under the label of human trafficking. This art…
An introduction to childhood
An introduction to childhood: anthropological perspectives on children's lives, by Heather Montgomery, 2008, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 281 pp., $89.95 (hardback)/$34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4
Rights and wrongs of children's work
The Theatre of Human Trafficking
Using the Lao PDR as a case study, this paper analyses human trafficking as discourse. Human trafficking is identified as a global discourse that is globalized through a set of powerful relations and actors. Following Appadurai, it is argued that this global discourse is not passively received by local actors such as the Lao state. This demonstrated by unravelling the global–local interactions through which it has entered the Lao social landscape…
Child Migration and Questions of Agency
Beyond compartmentalization
Based on fieldwork material from Lao People's Democratic Republic, this paper introduces an analytical framework that transcends compartmentalized approaches towards migration involving young people. The notions of fluid and institutionalized forms of migration illuminate key differences and commonalities in the relational fabric underpinning empirically diverse migration scenarios. Applying this framework to the role of networks in becoming a yo…
Becoming a young migrant or stayer seen through the lens of ‘householding’
Child Trafficking
This article presents a critique to the human trafficking discourse in relation to child migration, based on data obtained from the anti-trafficking community in the Greater Mekong Sub-region combined with an analysis of secondary material. It also presents a set of qualitative accounts of migration at a young age from Lao PDR and Thailand. On this basis a more theorized, grounded and nuanced perspective on child labour migration is developed. Th…
Youth gangs and street children
With Youth Gangs & Street Children Paula Heinonen has written a remarkable book that deserves a wide readership. It is based on six years of ethnographic research (1995–2001) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, conducted whilst Heinonen was based at the University of Addis Ababa, complemented with various snippets of data from the years after. The book differs from much of what has been written about young people on the street in that it brings together re…
Doing Gendered Age’
In this article I analyse the reconfiguration of the intersection of relations of gender and age manifesting between older mothers and their migrant daughters. For this I study the negotiation of care work between differently positioned women, drawing on material from Lao PDR and Thailand. Theoretically I draw on the constructivist notion of ‘doing gendered age’, which allows us to integrate the performance of gender–age subject positions with st…
Reconceptualizing children's rights in international development
Reconceptualizing children’s rights in international development: living rights, social justice, translations, edited by Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 318 pp., $99.00 (hardback only), ISBN 9781107031517
Theorising Age and Generation in Development
Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland
Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remoteLao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing onBenedictAnderson'sImagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of…
Generationing Development
This introduction chapter sets out the overall framework informing the volume and surveys the relevant literature. It lays out a relational approach to studying children, youth and development with age and generation as key concepts. This chapter introduces and develops these central ideas, and their various interpretations, and links them to the contributing chapters
Class work
Class Work is an ethnography of vocational education (VE) in contemporary urban China. It is based on a full year (2007–2008) of participant observation at two secondary VE schools in the city of N
Decentring the History of the Idea of Children’s Rights
Book review of: __S. Balagopalan__ _Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India_, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p. 237. isbn 978-0-230-29642-8 (hardcover)/isbn 978-1-137-31679-0 (eBook). $110 (hardcover)/$79.99 (eBook). __H. Morrison__ _Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt_, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 176. isbn 978-1-137-43277-3 (hardcover)/isbn 978-1-137-4327…
Exploring the “Age Question” in Research on Young Migrants in Southeast Asia
Recent years have seen a blossoming of research on children and young people as migrants in the Southeast Asian context. This article takes the form of a stock-taking exercise of this rapidly growing new field of research. Yet, it also asks "what's new?" thereby contrasting and comparing contemporary scholarship with earlier work on young people and mobility in the region. The concept of age is central to the exercise of studying children and you…
Children
Children: Ethnographic Encounters is the latest title in the Bloomsbury series Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge (series editor John Borneman). In line with the series mandate, it brings together a set of essays discussing material that too often is left out of published work: reflections on personal experiences of doing ethnographic fieldwork. All contributions are written in a highly accessible manner, free from disciplinary …
Rural youth and urban-based vocational training
The policy phrase Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia (and beyond). Despite numerous policy reports, little is known about how vocational training and education work as sites of practice. This is especially true for informal household-based apprenticeships and privately organized, commercial classroom-based training. Yet, these latter arrangements are numerous, an integral part of…
Becoming mobile and growing up
Drawing on ethnographic research with Lao village youth in a Lao–Thai borderland, I argue that their involvement in cross‐border day labour illuminates the interplay between the dynamics of “becoming mobile” and “growing up.” Despite the autonomy Lao village youth displays in cross‐border day labour, the practice is shaped by, situated within, and at the same time reproduces structural relations of inequality constituting the borderland. The soci…
Knowledge that moves’
Migration is an emotional experience, and so is the policy and research work associated with it. Yet, discussions on emotions and affect remain largely absent from the literature on children and youth migration. Writing auto-ethnographically, I revisit my research with/about young Lao migrants with the aim of teasing out how emotions, of young migrants, of my own and in policy making emerged in relation to various dimensions of young people’s mig…
Monetised childhoods
In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children’s lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an element of the informal apprenticeships through which Gamo children learn to weave. Qualitative research…
“Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London
Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos
Drawing on ethnographic research in northern Laos, this article analyses articulations of a good life in primary school textbook imagery and how this resonates with everyday life in rural upland communities. This is contrasted with children’s sketches of a good life found in the classrooms and ethnographic accounts of moments of ‘good time’ in the context of rural schooling. It is argued that these latter moments constitute brief instances of a g…
Farming, Gender and Aspirations Across Young People’s Life Course
Drawing on life history interviews conducted in Indian and Indonesian study sites, we tease out the social production of aspirations in the process of becoming a farmer. We show the power of a doxic logic in which schooling is regarded as the pathway out of farming, towards a future of non-manual, salaried employment. Among rural youth this doxic logic produces broadly defined aspiration such as ‘completing education’, and ‘getting a job’. In the…
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