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Navigating terrains of war : youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau / Henrik Vigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vigh, Henrik, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; Volume 13.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; Volume 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children and war--Guinea-Bissau.
- Children and war.
- Child soldiers--Guinea-Bissau.
- Child soldiers.
- Urban youth--Guinea-Bissau.
- Urban youth.
- Veterans--Social networks--Guinea-Bissau.
- Veterans.
- War and society--Guinea-Bissau.
- War and society.
- Social status--Guinea-Bissau.
- Social status.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Series Page; Title Page; Contents; 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 SOCIALTRAJECTORIES 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781845451493
- 184545149X
- 9781845451486
- 1845451481
- 9781782387275
- 1782387277
- OCLC:
- 1065296998
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