Course Objective
This course aims to introduce students to the various imaginaries of youth, and how they are shaped by social structures of class, caste, religion, and gender. It would enable them to interrogate the ways in which young people themselves navigate, resist and reshape such imaginaries and categorizations. Students will be able to engage with classical texts and contemporary debates that focus on entanglements between education, mobility, aspirations, and social reproduction among youth.
Faculty
Course Content
Youth as a category of analysis; Childhood and Youth in the Global South; Social and Cultural Reproduction; Social and Spatial Mobilities; Neoliberalism, Development and the Promise of Education; Youth, Labour and Precarity; Literary imaginaries of Youth and Aspiration; Education, Failure and Futures; Youth Politics, Protest and the Public Sphere