All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.
All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr Paul Ugor is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal. His research interests are in African Literatures and Cultures, Postcolonial Studies, and New Media Cultures in the Global South. Lord C. Mawuko-Yevugah is currently based in Accra, Ghana and teaches global development policy and comparative political economy at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is the author of Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Ashgate, July 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism 3: Power and Resistance 4: Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique 1 5: Youth Artivism in Uganda 6: Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 1 7: Humble Living and Hustling 8: Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World 9: Dialectics of Subversion 10: Coz Ov Moni 11: Singing Everyday Life 12: African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness 13: Gendered Spaces
1: Introduction 2: African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism 3: Power and Resistance 4: Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique 1 5: Youth Artivism in Uganda 6: Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 1 7: Humble Living and Hustling 8: Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World 9: Dialectics of Subversion 10: Coz Ov Moni 11: Singing Everyday Life 12: African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness 13: Gendered Spaces
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