Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia

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Articles in this special issue probe the relationships between strategies for upward socio-economic mobility and intergenerational aspirations in Asia. With capitalism, urbanisation, mass media, education and migration increasing throughout Asia, now is a time of flux in opportunities and subjectivities. Such changes are lived as deeply personal and relational. Young people are often instrumental to familial ‘development’ strategies, and this effects divisions of labour, norms of moral economy, life course ideals and distributions of power. At the same time, media, education and development discourses often exhort people to author autonomous destinies through entrepreneurialism, career and consumerism. Contributors to this issue, ‘Development, Gender and Intergenerational Aspirations in Asia’, ethnographically explore how old and new dreams—some emphasising autonomy, while others stress familial obligation—conjoin, elide and compete, and how people negotiate associated life course expectations. We also show how dreams find limits, requiring redreaming and rerouting.

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Bulloch, H. C. M. (2021). Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1974079

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