Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Dealing with Elusive Futures

University Graduates in Urban Africa

Edited by: Noemi Steuer , Michelle Engeler and Elísio Macamo

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839439494

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About this book

The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.
The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty.
The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.

Author / Editor information

Noemi Steuer (PhD) is a social anthropologist at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
Michelle Engeler (PhD) works at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Her research interests focus on youth, political change and mobility, particularly in West Africa.
Elísio Macamo (Prof.) is a sociologist at the Departement of Social Sciences and the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.

Reviews

Besprochen in:
Sociologus, 68 (2018), Lena Kroeker

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
1. Elusive Futures An Introduction Michelle Engeler and Noemi Steuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Negotiating the Future Young Graduates Respond to Career Uncer tainty in Tanzania Richard Faustine Sambaiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Ça va aller The Role of Hope in Burkinabe University Graduates’ Navigation towards the Future Maike Birzle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. ›Opening up La Chance‹ (Un)cer tainty among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali Susann Ludwig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. Looking for Better Opportunities An Analysis of Guinean Graduates’ Agency Carole Ammann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Politics of the Future – Riots of the Now Temporal Horizons of Youth in Upheavals in England and Guinea Joschka Philipps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Managing Uncertainty Youth Unemployment, Responsibilisation and Entrepreneurship Training Programmes in Ethiopia Julian Tadesse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Epilogue Uncer tainty and Elusive Futures Elísio Macamo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
On the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 198
Keywords: Africa; Youth; University; Uncertainty; Education; Ethnology; Educational Research

eBook

Published: November 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839439494