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Dealing with Elusive Futures : University Graduates in Urban Africa / ed. by Elísio Macamo, Michelle Engeler, Noemi Steuer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839439494
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.710917496 23
LOC classification:
  • LA2090.A357 D43 2017
  • Internet Access AEU
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Context -- 1. Elusive Futures -- 2. Negotiating the Future -- 3. Ça va aller -- 4. ›Opening up La Chance‹ -- 5. Looking for Better Opportunities -- 6. Politics of the Future – Riots of the Now -- 7. Managing Uncertainty -- 8. Epilogue -- On the Authors -- Backmatter
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839439494

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Context -- 1. Elusive Futures -- 2. Negotiating the Future -- 3. Ça va aller -- 4. ›Opening up La Chance‹ -- 5. Looking for Better Opportunities -- 6. Politics of the Future – Riots of the Now -- 7. Managing Uncertainty -- 8. Epilogue -- On the Authors -- Backmatter

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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