Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives : : An Ethnographic Study of Youth-State Relations in the Guéckédou Borderland / / Michelle Engeler.
This study is a contribution to the growing body of literature discussing youth and the state in Africa and beyond. This research monograph understands »youth« as a process mirrored in the meandering life trajectories of young people who explore various avenues to social status and adulthood. Inevit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kultur und soziale Praxis
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of tables and abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Who is young, is courageous!
- I. Introduction
- II. At the crossroads. The Guéckédou borderland in the making
- III. Get the state to work. State iconoclasm and revolutionary youth
- IV. I am the state. Re-making the state in post-revolutionary Guinea
- V. Meandering. Being young and growing up
- VI. Dangerous times. In defence of the homeland
- VII. War-peace continuum. On the move
- VIII. Entrepreneurial spirit. Associational life
- IX. Distant horizons. Belief and innovative development
- X. Concluding remarks
- Epilogue: Mutual dependency
- Appendix I. Timeline of important events in Guinea
- Appendix II. Key informants
- Bibliography