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Makers and Breakers Alcinda Honwana

Makers and Breakers By Alcinda Honwana

Makers and Breakers by Alcinda Honwana

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Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa.

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Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa by Alcinda Honwana

Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa. This book contributes to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to the postcolony and beyond. As such the authors strive to achieve a better insight into what lives in the hearts and minds of African youngsters. Contributors include: Alcinda Honwana, Filip De Boeck, Jean & John Comaroff, Mats Utas, Pamela Reynolds, Tshikala Biaya,Deborah Durham, Nicolas Argenti, Ibrahim Abdullah & Mamadou Diouf North America: Africa World Press; Senegal: Codesria

Makers and Breakers Reviews

This is an important collection of sociological studies of African youth over the past two decades. It proposes a collective view which sees young people as breaking with both old and new African traditions. Across the continent marginalised young people * . *
A sobering book, the authors provide a detailed analysis of how African children are manipulated and relegated to the margins of the public domain. The studies presented in this timely publication touch on crucial areas concerning the youth and their mechanisms for coping with their continued marginalisation. The book's strong point is its theoretical application of concepts of agency and pain, as this sheds light on how youth and women have adapted to traumatic conditions such as rape, conflict and unemployment. * . *
The perspectives provided are relevant tools that can be utilised to understand how youth in general, and not just in Africa, are coping with marginalisation. * . *
...this is a publication with a difference. By revealing a number of significant constraints implemented by the elite power structure, it provides the reader with food for thought and a deeper understanding of the complexities that power structures create to exclude young people from the benefits of mainstream economic participation, political acknowledgement and the opportunity to be free from unnecessary and unjust pain. This volume appeals not only to researchers in the field, but to civil society organisations, think tanks, government departments, universities and various other stakeholders. * NEW AGENDA *

About Alcinda Honwana

Alcinda Honwana is Program Director at the Social Science Research Council; Filip de Boeck is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Africa Research Center, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Table of Contents

Introduction: Children & youth in Africa by Filip de Boeck & Alcinda Honwana I Children & Youth In A Global Era Reflections on youth, from the past to the postcolony by Jean & John Comaroff II The Pain Of Agency, The Agency Of Pain Child-soldiers as interstitial & tactical agents by Alcinda Honwana - Young women in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas - Conceptions of pain & children's expressions of it in Southern Africa by Pamela Reynolds - Consciousness, affliction & alterity in urban East Africa by Brad Weiss III Children, Youth & Marginality: In & Out Of Place The forbidden masquerades of Oku youth & women by Nicolas Argenti - Song, choirs & youth in Botswana by Deborah Durham IV Past The Postcolony? Youth culture & violence in Sierra Leone by Ibrahim Abdullah - Children & witchcraft in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Filip de Boeck - Young & street culture in urban Africa: Addis Ababa, Dakar & Kinshasha by Tshikala Biaya - Afterword by Mamadou Diouf

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GOR013595867
9780852554340
0852554346
Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa by Alcinda Honwana
Alcinda Honwana
Used - Like New
Paperback
James Currey
2005-07-12
256
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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