Navigating youth, generating adulthood : social becoming in an African context / edited by Catrine Shroff, Mats Utas and Henrik Vigh

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TextPublication details: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrika institute, c2006.Description: 272 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9171065784

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305.23 NAV

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Social death and violent life chances / Henrik E. Vigh Coping with unpredictability : "preparing for life" in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon / Trond Waage Child migrants in transit : strategies to assert new identities in rural Burkina Faso / Dorte Thorsen Popular music and Luo youth in western Kenya : ambiguities of modernity, morality, and gender relations in the era of AIDS / Ruth Prince Industrial labour, marital strategy, and changing livelihood trajectories among young women in Lesotho / Christian Boehm Relocation of children : fosterage and child death in Biombo, Guinea-Bissau / Jónína Einarsdóttir Meaningful rebels? : young adult perceptions on the Lord's Resistance Movement/Army in Uganda / Sverker Finnström The serendipity of rebellious politics : inclusion and exclusion in a Togolese town / Nadia Lovell

Summary: This book focuses on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa. On agents who, willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of youth and the ways in which they seek to shape and unfold their lives in a positive manner. Rather than seeing youth as either a social or cultural entity in itself, or as a predefined life-stage, the book argues for an exploration of how youth position themselves and are positioned within generational categories. In studying young people, social scientists must conceptualise youth as both social being and social becoming; a position in movement. It is from the duality of being positioned and seeking one's own socio-generational position that this book engages in the debate on contemporary African youth

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	305.23 NAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0057821

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Social death and violent life chances / Henrik E. Vigh
Coping with unpredictability : "preparing for life" in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon / Trond Waage
Child migrants in transit : strategies to assert new identities in rural Burkina Faso / Dorte Thorsen
Popular music and Luo youth in western Kenya : ambiguities of modernity, morality, and gender relations in the era of AIDS / Ruth Prince
Industrial labour, marital strategy, and changing livelihood trajectories among young women in Lesotho / Christian Boehm
Relocation of children : fosterage and child death in Biombo, Guinea-Bissau / Jónína Einarsdóttir
Meaningful rebels? : young adult perceptions on the Lord's Resistance Movement/Army in Uganda / Sverker Finnström
The serendipity of rebellious politics : inclusion and exclusion in a Togolese town / Nadia Lovell

This book focuses on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa. On agents who, willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of youth and the ways in which they seek to shape and unfold their lives in a positive manner. Rather than seeing youth as either a social or cultural entity in itself, or as a predefined life-stage, the book argues for an exploration of how youth position themselves and are positioned within generational categories. In studying young people, social scientists must conceptualise youth as both social being and social becoming; a position in movement. It is from the duality of being positioned and seeking one's own socio-generational position that this book engages in the debate on contemporary African youth

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