http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/21892/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/39147/ 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious problems in most countries, and often more severe in rural than in urban areas. Small-scale agriculture is the developing world's single biggest source of employment, and with the necessary support it can offer a sustainable and productive alternative to the expansion of large-scale, capital-intensive, labour-displacing corporate farming. This, however, assumes a generation of young rural men and women who want to be small farmers, while mounting evidence suggests that young people are uninterested in farming or in rural futures. The emerging field of youth studies can help us understand young people's turn away from farming, pointing to: the deskilling of rural youth, and the downgrading of farming and rural life; the chronic neglect of small-scale agriculture and rural infrastructure; and the problems that young rural people increasingly have, even if they want to become farmers, in getting access to land while still young. © 2012 The Author. IDS Bulletin http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/38439/ 2012-07-01T00:00:00Z The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy to explore the rapid growth and complex dynamics of large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special focus on the implications of big land deals for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. The first part of this introductory essay examines the implications of this agrarian political economy perspective. First we explore the continuities and contrasts between historical and contemporary land grabs, before examining the core underlying debate around large- versus small-scale farming futures. Next, we unpack the diverse contexts and causes of land grabbing today, highlighting six overlapping mechanisms. The following section turns to assessing the crisis narratives that frame the justifications for land deals, and the flaws in the argument around there being excess, empty or idle land available. Next the paper turns to an examination of the impacts of land deals, and the processes of inclusion and exclusion at play, before looking at patterns of resistance and constructions of alternatives. The final section introduces the papers in the collection. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/39149/ 2012-07-01T00:00:00Z This article explores the gendered experience of monocrop oil-palm expansion in a Hibun Dayak community in Sanggau District, West Kalimantan (Indonesia). It shows how the expanding corporate plantation and contract farming system has undermined the position and livelihood of indigenous women in this already patriarchal community. The shifting of land tenure from the community to the state and the practice of the 'family head' system of smallholder plot registration has eroded women's rights to land, and women are becoming a class of plantation labour. At the same time, as in other cases of expansion of agrarian corporate commodity production, we can discern a familiar pattern of ambivalence between, on the one hand, the attractions of regular cash income and, on the other, the loss of resource tenure and autonomy, which helps to explain the community's gendered experience of coercion, exploitation, intimidation, consent and resistance. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/38584/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z This paper provides a reflective overview of studies of Indonesian youth. The main part is organised around a number of key ideas about youth, in three main sections, on 'youth as generation', 'youth as transition', and 'youth as makers and consumers of culture'. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/38942/ 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This paper explores changes in rural Javanese childhoods over three generations. A combination of historical ethnography and comparison of children's time-budgets, based on three periods of field research, allows us to trace how the experience of childhood has changed in the Javanese village of Kali Loro, from the 1930s to the early twenty-first century. We pay particular attention to the ongoing process of prolongation of childhood and adolescence through changes in education, marriage, children's work and young lifestyles. For the grandparents and parents of today's children, working, and earning money, outside school hours was a part of normal life for both boys and girls. While children's need for money has grown with changing lifestyles in the intervening decades, work outside the home, and particularly work that earns money, is no longer a significant part of childrens' experience. This puts today's children in a condition of greater dependence on parents, elder siblings or other relatives for access to cash, bringing new tensions into intergenerational relations. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/39148/ 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tulisan ini menyajikan tinjauan reflektif tentang studi pemuda Indonesia. Bagian utamanya membahas sejumlah ide kunci tentang pemuda, terbagi dalam tiga subbagian utama yaitu tentang “pemuda sebagai generasi”, “pemuda sebagai transisi” dan “pemuda sebagai pencipta dan konsumen budaya”. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22370/ 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest than the forms of (direct or indirect) appropriation of their land and the forms of their insertion or exclusion as producers in global commodity chains. Global demand for both agrofuels and food is stimulating new forms (or the resurgence of old forms) of corporate land grabbing and expropriation, and of incorporation of smallholders in contracted production. Drawing both on recent studies on agrofuels expansion and on the political economy literature on agrarian transition and capitalism in agriculture, this article raises the question whether 'agrofuels capitalism' is in any way essentially different from other forms of capitalist agrarian monocrop production, and in turn whether the agrarian transitions involved require new tools of analysis. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22705/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22706/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18369/ 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z As Development and Change completes its fortieth year, this note first describes the emergence of the journal’s critical, generalist identity. It then provides a glimpse into the journal’s ‘kitchen’, comments on the transformation in global access and readership since the journal went online, and reflects on the past, present and future of journal publishing in international development studies. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18311/ 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18976/ 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18923/ 1996-06-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/30874/ 1994-06-16T00:00:00Z Working children and young people occupy a relatively weak and easily exploitable position in work relations and in the labour market. As a social group, they share this problem with various other structurally- disadvantaged social groups in society (examples are women, e!liiiic minorities or migrants and the disabled). However, they are the only-one among such groups whose exploitation is generally addressed by attempts to remove them completely from the labour market, rather-17 than by efforts to improve the terms and conditions under which they work. What is the basis for treating the 'child labour~,:p~oblem in such a different way: i.e. by demanding special laws and regulations excluding this category of persons from access to employment, rather than by demanding the abolition of discrimination against them? http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18817/ 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18760/ 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/18789/ 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z