Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Mbuli the Victorious: The Micro-history of an Aguenta
Chapter 2. Perspectives and Positions
PART II: THE AGUENTAS
Chapter 3. Becoming Aguentas
Chapter 4. Wars without Enemies
PART III: SOCIAL NAVIGATION
Chapter 5. The Social Moratorium of Youth
Chapter 6. Dubriagem and Social Navigation: Constructing Social Trajectories through War
PART IV: ON SHIFTING GROUND
Chapter 7. Inhabiting Unstable Terrains: The Everyday of Decline and Conflict
Chapter 8. From Negritude to Ineptitude: On Horizons and Broken Imaginaries
PART V: IN APPEASEMENT?
Chapter 9. Recategorising Men as Children: Bottom-up Reconciliation
Chapter 10. Closure
Bibliography
Index
