Navigating Terrains of War : : Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau / / Henrik E. Vigh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Vigh, Henrik E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; PART I INTRODUCTION --; 1. Mbuli the Victorious: The Micro-history of an Aguenta --; 2. Perspectives and Positions --; PART II THE AGUENTAS --; 3. Becoming Aguentas --; 4. Wars without Enemies --; PART III SOCIAL NAVIGATION --; 5. The Social Moratorium of Youth --; 6. Dubriagem and Social Navigation: Constructing Social Trajectories through War --; PART IV ON SHIFTING GROUND --; 7. Inhabiting Unstable Terrains: The Everyday of Decline and Conflict --; 8. From Negritude to Ineptitude: On Horizons and Broken Imaginaries --; PART V IN APPEASEMENT? --; 9. Recategorising Men as Children: Bottom-up Reconciliation --; 10. Closure --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782387275; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782387275
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Henrik E. Vigh.

Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective on praxis in situations of conflict and turmoil. It provides insights into the interplay between objective structures and subjective agency, thus enabling us to make sense of the opportunistic, sometimes fatalistic and tactical ways in which young people struggle to expand the horizons of possibility in a world of conflict, turmoil and diminishing resources.