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A Global Generation? Youth Studies in a PostcolonialWorld.
- Source :
- Societies (2075-4698); Mar2018, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p14, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Today's young people navigate a world that becomes simultaneously more interconnected and less capable of silencing long-standing inequities. What analytical perspectives does a sociology of youth and generations require in such a context? This paper makes two suggestions: to conceptualize generations as global rather than regionally bound (cf. Mannheim 1928) and to transgress the colonial bifurcation of academia between sociology for the so-called 'modern' world and area studies and anthropology for the so-called 'developing' world. Drawing from a large body of literature on African youth that has hitherto remained unheeded in youth studies, as well as from postcolonial theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea and Uganda, I argue that academic representations of African youth constitute a particularly insightful repertoire for investigating the methodological challenges and potentials of a global sociological perspective on youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- THEORY of knowledge
POSTCOLONIALISM
GLOBALIZATION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20754698
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Societies (2075-4698)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128760411
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010014