Global division of labor makes youth objects rather than subjects of development

Evidence

Why are they as poor as they are? Why do they feel boxed in by so many constraints? Why is it that they can’t recognize themselves in the modern world? Well, because of the way in which the division of labor in global capitalist society does make them the objects, rather than the subjects, of economic, social, and cultural development. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1145

Categorization

• XREF: The subject/object of development binary is foundational to postcolonial and Islamophobia critique; resonates with the field’s reading of how structural position produces grievance and religiopolitical recruitment.