Hope is cut : youth, unemployment, and the future in urban Ethiopia / Daniel Mains.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mains, Daniel, 1975-

Series:

Global youth.

Global youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban youth--Ethiopia--Social conditions.

Urban youth.

Urban youth--Employment--Ethiopia.

Urban youth--Ethiopia--Attitudes.

Ethiopia--Economic conditions.

Ethiopia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do ambitious young men grapple with an unemployment rate in urban Ethiopia hovering around fifty percent? Urban, educated, and unemployed young men have been the primary force behind the recent unrest and revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East. Daniel Mains' detailed and moving ethnographic study, Hope is Cut, examines young men's struggles to retain hope for the future in the midst of economic uncertainty and cultural globalization.Through a close ethnographic examination of young men's day-to-day lives Hope is Cut explores the construction of opti

Contents:

Introduction: youth, hope, stratification, and time

The historical and cultural roots of unemployment and stratification in urban Ethiopia

Imagining hopeful futures through khat and film

"We live like chickens, we are just eating and sleeping": progress, education and the temporal struggles of young men

Working towards hope: youth unemployment, occupational status, and values

Hopeful exchanges: reciprocity and changing dimensions of urban stratification

Spatial fixes to temporal problems: migration, social relationships, and work

Conclusions: sustaining hope in the present and the future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613311146

9781283311144

1283311143

9781439904817

1439904812

OCLC:

756485002

Publisher Number:

heb40317 hdl