International development aid and young people's participation in societal development of the global south |
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Authors: | Ståle Angen Rye Silje Vold |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Trondheim, Norway stale.angen.rye@ntnu.no;3. Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT International development aid has in recent years sought to strengthen youths’ societal participation by cooperation between international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and local youth associations. In this paper, we address and conceptualise some of the underlying causes that may enable and/or limit such efforts to support youth participation in the global south. We seek to contribute to the growing literature exploring the multiple scales of young people's political agency. A core argument proposed is that notions of generational relationality, as seen in the case of international development aid targeting youth, must include conceptions of power as a topological relation across space. |
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Keywords: | Civil society young people’s participation NGOs international development aid topology generations |
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