\u201cImagining Alternative Futures in Asian and Global Contexts.\u201d<\/em> Drawing on her research with young people in Bodoland, northeastern India\u2014a region that has undergone significant transformation from a site of armed conflict and statehood demands to an autonomous region aspiring towards development\u2014Dr. Lynrah explores how young people respond to uncertainties and precarities by developing \u201cbackup plans\u201d.
\nBy reflecting on these insights alongside issues facing young people in Japan, this event opens a space to rethink shared challenges and to consider how alternative futures might be imagined across interconnected global contexts.<\/p>\n\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0<\/h3>\n
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In this presentation, Dr. Balawansuk Lynrah examines the life trajectories of young people in Bodoland, a peripheral region in northeastern India that has undergone significant transformation from a site of armed conflict and statehood demands to an autonomous region aspiring towards development. Drawing on qualitative interviews with young people, she analyzes how they respond to uncertainties and precarities by developing \u201cbackup plans\u201d. Building on Craig Jeffery\u2019s (2010) concept of timepass, she argues that backup plans illustrate young people\u2019s active engagement in strategizing for future security, challenging the notion of passivity. The concept of backup thus offers a lens to understand how young people anticipate, adapt, adjust, and navigate structural constraints in pursuit of alternative futures. These practices highlight deep entanglements between imagined futures and the specific geographies inhabited by young people, while also foregrounding their agency, resilience, capacity for hope, and capabilities to aspire from the margins.<\/p>\n
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\nDr. Balawansuk Lynrah\uff08Geographer\/\u5730\u7406\u5b66\u8005\uff09<\/p>\n
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Balawansuk Lynrah is a postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo. She holds a PhD in Geography from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and her research explores how young people imagine and navigate their futures. Her broader interests include the geographies of children and young people, futures, everyday politics, development, and justice. Before starting her doctoral research, she worked with a community-based organization in Bodoland from 2011, which deeply shaped her research with young people.<\/p>\n
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