Navigating Youth Generating Adulthood by Catrine Christiansen

Navigating Youth Generating Adulthood by Catrine Christiansen

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.The chapters are based on ethnographic research across the African continent and provide in-depth analyses of the perceptions, positions, possibilities, and practices of diverse groups of young people.

Mats Utas is a senior lecturer at Uppsala University, and formerly a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute.
Mats Utas is a senior lecturer at Uppsala University, and formerly a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute.

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ISBN 13	9789171065780
ISBN 10	9171065784
Title	Navigating Youth Generating Adulthood
Author	Catrine Christiansen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nordic African Institute
Year published	2006-08-23
Number of pages	274
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