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SUMMARY:Generative Politics: Youth\, Mobilization and the State  - Profess
 or Craig Jeffrey\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20130124T161500Z
DTEND:20130124T180000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:This paper uses research in India to highlight the possibiliti
 es of youth politics and vitality of civil society in the global South. We
  also develop a new theory of generative politics. Generative politics is 
 to be understood as forms of everyday political action that are not primar
 ily about the allocation of scarce resources or competition for goods. Mor
 e specifically\, generative politics refers to practices that entail navig
 ating conflict and building consensus with a view to creating resources fo
 r the poor\, where “resources” are understood broadly to include socia
 l networks\, information and confidence as well as jobs\, assets and money
 . The scholarly and public implications of being able to show that young p
 eople are involved in generative politics - and also of charting the limit
 s of generative politics and its contradictions - are very significant ind
 eed\, enhancing scholarly and public understanding of possibilities for yo
 uth mobilization and encouraging powerful institutions to view young peopl
 e not simply as problems\, potentials\, voters\, or volunteers\, but co-cr
 eators of democracy.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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