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This commentary draws on the previous chapters to highlight how both age and generation are produced and deployed in the exercise of power in societies. They are shown both to regulate (for stability and continuity) and to produce change. As such, age and generation are fundamental to the contexts in which development interventions happen. They also play a role in development. Intentional processes of development restructure relations of age and generation, and development proceeds in part through this restructuring. Often, however, as the chapters reveal, development policies and interventions incorporate notions and practices of age and generation that conflict with or disrupt locally prevalent age and generation norms. This has significant, and not always positive, consequences for young people’s lives.
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Ansell, N. (2016). Age and Generation in the Service of Development?. In: Huijsmans, R. (eds) Generationing Development. Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3_14
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