Rhetoric, reality and resilience: Overcoming obstacles to young people's participation in development

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-89

  Driskell, David ^a   Bannerjee, Kanchan ^b   Chawla, Louise ^c  

^a Baird and Driskell Comm Planning   (United States)

^b Kentucky State University ^*  (India)

^c KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 0034996211     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624780101300106     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Annan, K (2000), We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, United Nations, New York, Section II D, pages 52-54.
2. Pearse, A and M Stiefel (editors) (1979), Enquiry into Participation, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva.
3. See, in particular, Article 12 and related provisions in Articles 13 through 15 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, First Call for Children, UNICEF, New York, pages 41-75.
4. Hodgkin, R and P Newell (1998), Implementation Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, New York.
5. UNCHS (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements) (1997), The Habitat Agenda, UNCHS, Nairobi, paragraph 13.
6. Hart, R (1997), Children's Participation, Earthscan Publications, London.
7. Bartlett, S, R Hart, D Satterthwaite, X de la Barra and A Missair (1999), Cities for Children, Earthscan Publications, London.
8. "Growing Up in Cities" was first conceived by the urban planner Kevin Lynch in collaboration with UNESCO. See Lynch, K (editor) (1977), Growing Up in Cities, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. For a review of the project revival in collaboration with the MOST Programme of UNESCO, see Chawla, L (editor) (in press), Growing Up in an Urbanizing World, Earthscan Publications, London. An updated project description is available at www.unesco.org/most/ growing.htm.
9. "Growing Up in Cities" was first conceived by the urban planner Kevin Lynch in collaboration with UNESCO. See Lynch, K (editor) (1977), Growing Up in Cities, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. For a review of the project revival in collaboration with the MOST Programme of UNESCO, see Chawla, L (editor) (in press), Growing Up in an Urbanizing World, Earthscan Publications, London. An updated project description is available at www.unesco.org/most/ growing.htm.
10. The project methods are detailed in Driskell, D (in press), Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth, Earthscan Publications, London.
11. For an extensive report of the results of "Growing Up in Cities" in Sathyanagar, see Bannerjee, K and D Driskell (in press), "Tales from truth town: children's lives in a South Indian 'slum'" in Chawla, see reference 8.
12. Another "Growing Up in Cities" site demonstrated the contrasting effects of insecure tenure on children's lives. See Swart Kruger, J (in press), "Children in a South African squatter camp gain and lose a voice" in Chawla, see reference 8.
13. For a discussion of the importance of similar spaces in the Buenos Aires location of "Growing Up in Cities", see Cosco, N and R Moore (in press), "Our neighborhood is like that! Cultural richness and childhood identity in Boca-Barracas, Buenos Aires" in Chawla, see reference 8. See also "Neighbourhoods for children" in Bartlett, S et al. (1999), see reference 7.
14. For a discussion of the importance of similar spaces in the Buenos Aires location of "Growing Up in Cities", see Cosco, N and R Moore (in press), "Our neighborhood is like that! Cultural richness and childhood identity in Boca-Barracas, Buenos Aires" in Chawla, see reference 8. See also "Neighbourhoods for children" in Bartlett, S et al. (1999), see reference 7.
15. For discussions of "paradoxical poverty" in places that are poor in material resources yet rich in social, cultural or environmental resources, see reference 12, Cosco and Moore (in press); also McKendrick, J (1998), "Families and family environments in Manchester," Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, 1995-1997, pages 1-27.
16. For discussions of "paradoxical poverty" in places that are poor in material resources yet rich in social, cultural or environmental resources, see reference 12, Cosco and Moore (in press); also McKendrick, J (1998), "Families and family environments in Manchester," Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, 1995-1997, pages 1-27.
17. Chawla, L (in press), "Spots of time: different ways of being in nature in childhood" in Kahn, P H and S Kellert (editors), Children and Nature, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
18. For further analyses of conflicts between funding agency practices and processes which actually support beneficiaries' self-determination, see: Nieuwenhuys, O (1997), "Spaces for the children of the urban poor," Environment and Urbanization Vol 9, No 1, pages 233-249; also Satterthwaite, D et al. (1996), The Environment for Children, Earthscan Publications, London, chapter 6.
19. For further analyses of conflicts between funding agency practices and processes which actually support beneficiaries' self-determination, see: Nieuwenhuys, O (1997), "Spaces for the children of the urban poor," Environment and Urbanization Vol 9, No 1, pages 233-249; also Satterthwaite, D et al. (1996), The Environment for Children, Earthscan Publications, London, chapter 6.
20. Masten, A S and J D Coatsworth, (1998), "The development of competence in favourable and unfavourable environments," American Psychologist, Vol 53, No 2, pages 205-220.