ISBN:
9781472429759
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (308 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Contemporary African Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World : Challenges, Agency and Resistance
DDC:
305.235096
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Contributors from Africa and ar
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1Introduction: Markets, States, and Generations: African Youth in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization; 2 African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism: Exploring the Dialectics between Cosmopolitan and Identity Politics; 3 Power and Resistance: Tertiary Education Reform and Student Activism in Ghana ; 4 Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique ; 5 Youth Artivism in Uganda: Co-Creators of Our Own Becoming
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 7 Humble Living and Hustling: Youth Struggles in Mathare Constituency, Nairobi; 8 Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World; 9 Dialectics of Subversion: Protest Art and Political Dissidence in West Africa; 10 Coz Ov Moni: Hip-Life, Hybridity and Contemporary Youth Culture in Ghana; 11 Singing Everyday Life: Placing the Limpopo Youth Experience in the Global Imaginary
Description / Table of Contents:
12 African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Resistance in Nigeria 13 Gendered Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges of African Youth in the Context of Neoliberal Globalization; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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