
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- huijsmans@iss.nl
Profile
My research concentrates on young people’s situated encounters with development and change, privileging the perspectives of those who are rarely heard. My early research contributed to the recognition of, and the development of theoretical approaches to children and young people as agents in migration. This work is published in leading journals in Development Studies, Human Geography and Childhood & Youth studies and impacted policy discussions on children, youth and migration.
Next I developed the broader project of theoretically accounting for children and young people in relation to international development. Through the idea of ‘generationing development’ I have shown how concepts of age and generation are key to bridging work in the social studies of childhood and youth with critical development studies. The work was first introduced in a Special Issue of a leading Development Studies journal (co-edited) and developed further in a single-edited volume (Palgrave, 2016).
Currently I’m involved in two major international, comparative research projects. They both focus on young people’s orientation to the future and their pathways into social adulthood (one ESRC-DFID funded, one Canadian Insight Grant funded project). Next to this I am conducting research into young people’s engagement with mobile telephony in rural post-socialist Southeast Asia, shedding light on the intersection between being young and the post-socialist condition. Throughout, my research is characterised by an ethnographic orientation, which informs my writing, methodological choices, research ethics, approach to theory building and conceptualisation, as well as my teaching.
- RBC (Roy) Huijsmans (2021) - Age-based Marketing Practices and Young People as Economic Actors in the Mobile Telephony Market in Provincial Vietnam - Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia, 25 (1), 23-31 - doi: 10.7454/hubs.asia.1180820
- Pritee Hamal & Roy Huijsmans (2021) - Making markets gendered: Kathmandu’s ride-sharing platforms through a gender lens - Gender, Place and Culture, 29 (5), 670-692 - doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1931046 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans, N Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - Youth, Aspirations and the Life course: Development and the Social Production of Aspirations in Young People's Lives - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans, A Ambarwati, C Chazali & M Vijayabaskar (2021) - Farming, Gender and Aspirations across Young People's Life Course: Attempting to keep things open while becoming a farmer - European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1), 71-88 - doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00302-y - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans, N Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations - European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1) - doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00337-1 - [link]
- L Rodan & Roy Huijsmans (2021) - “Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London - European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1), 147-164 - doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00299-4 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans (2020) - Rural schooling and good life in late socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of ‘good time’ - European Journal of East Asian Studies, 20 (1), 163-191 - doi: 10.1163/15700615-20211001 - [link]
- N Ansell, P Froerer, Roy Huijsmans, CE Dungey, AC Dost & Piti (2020) - Educating 'surplus population': uses and abuses of aspiration in the rural peripheries of a globalising world - Fennia, 198 (1-2), 17-38 - doi: 10.11143/fennia.90756 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans (2020) - Moving National Narratives: Artistic expressions of flight, refuge and belonging - [link]
- Fasil Taye & Roy Huijsmans (2020) - Monetised Childhoods: Money and consumption among young weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Global Studies of Childhood, 10 (2), 183-194 - doi: 10.1177/2043610619895021 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans, N Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - European Journal of Development Research (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2014) - Jongeren en Mobiele Telefonie in Laos en Vietnam
- SJTM Evers, S (Shanti) George, R Gigengack & Roy Huijsmans (2014) - European Journal of Development Research (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2013) - Children's Geographies (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2013) - Palgrave handbook of Econometrics (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2011) - Workshop On Householding In Transition: Emerging Dynamics In ‘Developing’ East And Southeast Asia
Major SPD
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-SPD-21-22
2101 The Making of Development
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2101-21-22
2102 The Making of Development (GMD)
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2102-21-22
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-21-22
3303 Ethnographic Research
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-3303-21-22
4152 Development Policies and Practice
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4152-21-22
2203 Reading Development
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2203-21-22
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-21-22
General Information
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-21-22
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-21-22
4311 Children, Youth and Development
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4311-21-22
4154 Critical Social Policy
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4154-21-22