What Politics?
Youth and Political Engagement in Africa
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-90-04-32244-8 (ISBN)
Description
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today's Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people's everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow's yesterday means for them in personal and political terms.
Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Paeivi Armila, Randi Ronning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, ?ora Bjoernsdottir, Jonina Einarsdottir, Tilo Graetz, Nanna Jordt Jorgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpaeae, and Mulumebet Zenebe.
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Paeivi Armila, Randi Ronning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, ?ora Bjoernsdottir, Jonina Einarsdottir, Tilo Graetz, Nanna Jordt Jorgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpaeae, and Mulumebet Zenebe.
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-32244-8 (9789004322448)
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Youth and Political Engagement in Africa
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Persons
Elina Oinas, Ph.D. (2001), Abo Akademi University, Finland, is Professor in Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research deals with health, activism and feminisms in Africa.
Henri Onodera is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has conducted research on youth activism and prolonged adolescence in Egypt, and everyday lives of young Muslims in Finland.
Leena Suurpaeae is a youth researcher, adjunct professor and civic activist, working for the Finnish Red Cross. Suurpaeae has an academic career in the Finnish Youth Research Network, studying issues ranging from youth cultures to youth work and youth policy.
Henri Onodera is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has conducted research on youth activism and prolonged adolescence in Egypt, and everyday lives of young Muslims in Finland.
Leena Suurpaeae is a youth researcher, adjunct professor and civic activist, working for the Finnish Red Cross. Suurpaeae has an academic career in the Finnish Youth Research Network, studying issues ranging from youth cultures to youth work and youth policy.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics
?Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpaeae
Part 1: Envisioning
2 A Question of Power
?Danai S. Mupotsa
3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt
?Henri Onodera
4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia
?Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpaeae and Afifa Ltifi
5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?
?Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli
6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
?Mulumebet Zenebe
7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption
?Mounir Saidani
Part 2: Entitlement
8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso
?Jesper Bjarnesen
9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya
?Nanna Jordt Jorgensen
10 "Acholi Youth Are Lost": Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda
?Henni Alava
11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin
?Tilo Graetz
12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland
?Mariko Sato
Part 3: Embeddedness
13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends
?Abdoulaye Sounaye
14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans
?Eija Ranta
15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe's National Youth Service, 2001-2007
?Ivo Mhike
16 Students' Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia
?Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Ronning Balsvik
17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights
??ora Bjoernsdottir and Jonina Einarsdottir
18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis
?Paeivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira
19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: 'Gender activism in the making'
?Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics
?Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpaeae
Part 1: Envisioning
2 A Question of Power
?Danai S. Mupotsa
3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt
?Henri Onodera
4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia
?Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpaeae and Afifa Ltifi
5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?
?Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli
6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
?Mulumebet Zenebe
7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption
?Mounir Saidani
Part 2: Entitlement
8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso
?Jesper Bjarnesen
9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya
?Nanna Jordt Jorgensen
10 "Acholi Youth Are Lost": Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda
?Henni Alava
11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin
?Tilo Graetz
12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland
?Mariko Sato
Part 3: Embeddedness
13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends
?Abdoulaye Sounaye
14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans
?Eija Ranta
15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe's National Youth Service, 2001-2007
?Ivo Mhike
16 Students' Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia
?Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Ronning Balsvik
17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights
??ora Bjoernsdottir and Jonina Einarsdottir
18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis
?Paeivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira
19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: 'Gender activism in the making'
?Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane
Index