Navigating youth, generating adulthood : social becoming in an African context

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...

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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلفون آخرون: Shroff, Catrine, Vigh, Henrik, Utas, Mats
التنسيق: كتاب
منشور في: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrika institute, c2006.
الموضوعات:
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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