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Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces

Author : Michael Bourdillon
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869785429
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces written by Michael Bourdillon and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with problems facing children and youth in African cities today. African populations have high growth rates and, consequently, relatively high proportions of young people. Population growth in rural areas has stretched resources leading to urban migration and a rapid growth of cities. Economies have not grown apace with the population; and in some countries, economies have even shrunk. The result is a severe lack of resources in cities to meet the needs of the growing populations, shown in high unemployment, inadequate housing, poor services, and often extreme poverty. All the essays in this book draw attention to such urban environments, in which children and youth have to live and survive. The title of this book speaks of negotiating livelihoods. The concept of ‘livelihood’ has been adopted to incorporate the social and physical environment together with people’s responses to it. It considers not only material, but also human and social resources, including local knowledge and understanding. It, thus, considers the material means for living in a broader context of social and cultural interpretation. It, therefore, does not deal only with material and economic existence, but also with leisure activities, entertainments and other social forms of life developed by young people in response to the dictates of the environment. The book contains country-specific case studies of the problems faced by youths in many African cities, how they develop means to solve them, and the various creative ways through which they improve their status, both economically and socially, in the different urban spaces. It recognizes the potentials of young people in taking control of their lives within the constraints imposed upon them by the society. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of child and youth development, and a useful tool for parents, teachers, academics, researchers as well as government and non-government development agencies.

Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces

Author : M F C (Michael F C); Sangare Bourdillon (A (Ali).)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces written by M F C (Michael F C); Sangare Bourdillon (A (Ali).) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces

Author : M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869785046
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces written by M. F. C. Bourdillon and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of essays that draw attention to urban environments, such as high unemployment, inadequate housing, poor services, and often extreme poverty, in which children and youth have to live and survive. Looks at poor to middle-class communities in African cities (in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe), and illustrates how young people find ways not only of surviving, but also of enjoying themselves.

The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment

Author : Tamar Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351247646
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment written by Tamar Mayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed adults. This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape. This concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not consistent across the world, it is a coherent problem in the global political economy. This book examines this crisis of youth unemployment, drawing on international case studies. It is organized around four key dimensions of the crisis: precarity, flexibility, migration, and policy responses. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the chapters offer a dynamic portrait of unemployment and how this is being challenged through new modes of resistance. This book provides cross-national comparisons, both ethnographic and quantitative, to explore the contours of this laborscape on the global, national, and local scales. Throughout these varied case studies is a common narrative from young workers, families, students, volunteers, and activists facing a new and growing problem. This book will be an imperative resource for students and researchers looking at the sociology of globalization, global political economy, labor markets, and economic geography.

The human dilemma of displacement

Author : Alfred R. Brunsdon
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928523323
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The human dilemma of displacement written by Alfred R. Brunsdon and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book social responsive theological research converges to provide practical theological and ecclesiological perspectives on the growing human dilemma of displacement. The book presents the research of practical theologians, a missiologist and a religious practitioner whose work pertains first and foremost to the (South) African context. The different fields of expertise of the contributors within the broader field of practical theology worked towards a unique compilation of themes, each relevant to the issue at stake. The majority of chapters are theoretically orientated, except where authors refer to empirical work conducted during previous research. The main contribution of this collaborative work is to be sought in the practical theological and ecclesiological perspectives it provides. It engages the critical questions of what kind of church we need, and what kind of care we should provide in the face of the growing predicament of human displacement. The theological and theoretical principles uncovered in the different chapters will be of use to theologians from all theological subdisciplines, as well as to religious practitioners and leaders of faith communities that are challenged with the growing realities of strangers on their doorsteps and in their pews.

Mediating Xenophobia in Africa

Author : Dumisani Moyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030612368
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Xenophobia in Africa written by Dumisani Moyo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions that analyse different ways in which migration and xenophobia have been mediated in both mainstream and social media in Africa and the meanings of these different mediation practices across the continent. It is premised on the assumption that the media play an important role in mediating the complex intersection between migration, identity, belonging, and xenophobia (or what others have called Afrophobia), through framing stories in ways that either buttress stereotyping and Othering, or challenge the perceptions and representations that fuel the violence inflicted on so-called foreign nationals. The book deals with different expressions of xenophobic violence, including both physical and emotional violence, that target the foreign Other in different African countries.

Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town

Author : Dariusz Dziewanski
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839097302
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town written by Dariusz Dziewanski and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher Category This book showcases a practical starting point for changing how criminologists think about gangs and street culture – offering hope to those trying to exit gang life, as well as those trying to help them do so.

The Nocturnal City

Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317197224
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book The Nocturnal City written by Robert Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time for play, for sleep or for escaping oppression have come increasingly under threat. This book looks at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of ‘planetary urbanization’ have traced the spatial spread of urban forms, the temporal expansion of urban capitalism has been less well mapped. It argues that, as a key part of planetary being, understanding what goes on at night in cities can add nuance to debates on planetary urbanization. A series of practices and spaces that we encounter in the night-time city are explored. These include: the maintenance and repair of infrastructure; the aesthetics of the urban night; nightlife and the night-time economy; the home at night; and the ecologies of the urban night. Taking these forward the book will ask whether the night can reveal some of the boundaries to what we call ‘the urban’ in a world of cities, and will call for a revitalized and enhanced ‘nightology’ to study these limits.

Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations

Author : Pia Jolliffe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137572183
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations written by Pia Jolliffe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to the Karen in Burma and in Thailand. This is followed by an analysis of children’s migration for education in northern Thailand where state schools often encourage students’ aspirations towards upward social mobility at the same time as schools reproduce social inequality between the rural Karen and urban Thai society. The author draws attention to international humanitarian agencies who deliver education to refugees and migrants at the Thai-Burma border, as well as the role of UK government schools in the process of resettling Karen refugees. In this way, the book analyses the connections between learning, migration and intergenerational relations in households, schools and other institutions at the local, regional and global level.

Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Author : Todd Cleveland
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446967
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Sports in Africa, Past and Present written by Todd Cleveland and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa’s dynamic place in the world. Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of “civilizing” indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and “muscular Christianity,” Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya’s world-class long-distance runners, pitches and stadiums in communities large and small, fandom and pay-to-watch kiosks, the sporting diaspora, sports pedagogy, sports as resistance and as a means to forge identity, sports heritage, the impact of politics on sports, and sporting biography.

Intimacies, Citizenship and Refugee Men

Author : Samuel Muchoki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319465112
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Intimacies, Citizenship and Refugee Men written by Samuel Muchoki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives. It focuses on the lived experiences of masculinity, sexuality and pursuit of intimate relationships by men who have arrived in Australia as refugees from the Horn of Africa. The author shows that, even amidst the chaos of displacement, the difficulties of living in limbo whilst seeking asylum and the challenges of settlement, the desire for enjoyable and fulfilling intimate relations remains central to the everyday lives of refugee men. This novel work will appeal to students and scholars of migration studies, citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights

Author : Antonella Invernizzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319332511
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book ‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights written by Antonella Invernizzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew’s work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as ‘out of place’, that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood. It includes contributions on working children, children living on the street, orphans and victims of sexual exploitation. It covers developments and concepts used by Judith Ennew with an emphasis on perspectives of children’s human rights, their participation, cultural sensitivity, research methodology, methods, ethics, monitoring, policy making and programming. In so doing, it brings together material that form a holistic view of not only her way of thinking, but of a policy and programming agenda developed by a number of researchers, academics and activists since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Download or read book 0. A_Prelim.pmd written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: APrelim.pmd 26/03/2012, 16:132 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa DAKAR Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces Edited by Michael F. [...] CODESRIA publishes Africa Development, the longest standing Africa based social science journal; Afrika Zamani, a journal of history; the African Sociological Review; the African Journal of International Affairs; Africa Review of Books and the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. [...] CODESRIA would like to express its gratitude to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA/SAREC), the International Develop- ment Research Centre (IDRC), the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Coopera- tion (NORAD), the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA), the French Ministry of Cooperation. [...] The Trajectories of Survival of the Mungiki Youth in Nairobi ................................................................................................ [...] APrelim.pmd 26/03/2012, 16:137 Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spacesviii Babatunde Joshua Omotosho, Department of Sociology, Faculty of the So- cial Sciences, University of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

Children, Youth and the City

Author : Kathrin Horschelmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134184131
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Children, Youth and the City written by Kathrin Horschelmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific issues such as poverty, homelessness and work. Each chapter draws on examples and cases from both the developed and developing world, and throughout the chapters, it: contrasts experiences of growing up in the city focuses on urban youth culture, consumption and globalization considers contemporary movements towards the role of children and youths in planning processes. Horschelmann and van Blerk argue that youths must be recognised as urban social agents in their own right. Their informative book, though dealing with complex theoretical arguments, relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner, making this book an excellent resource for students of human geography, urban studies and childhood studies.

The Future of Counterinsurgency

Author : Lawrence E. Cline
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440833001
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Counterinsurgency written by Lawrence E. Cline and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking work analyzes the major debates surrounding counterinsurgency campaigns and uncovers the internal security problems derailing effective strategies for restoring stability. As countries across the globe continue to adjust their security operations to counter an increasingly volatile political landscape, the issue of how to identify and derail a host of violent groups remains of considerable interest. This comprehensive volume offers an examination of the effectiveness of contemporary counterinsurgency efforts, revealing which approaches offer the greatest chances of success internally, regionally, and internationally. Featuring perspectives from experts and analysts in the field of irregular warfare and international security, this is an unparalleled exploration of all types of insurgency from warlordism, to piracy, to guerilla movements. The book looks beyond the popular focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, delving into the internal security operations of regions not normally studied. Chapters cover goal setting and measurements for restoring security, information operations and strategic communications between insurgent groups and governments, and the different approaches of governments in combating political unrest. Case studies include movements in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and South Africa.

Young People

Author : Tatek Abebe
Publisher : Un-Habitat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Young People written by Tatek Abebe and published by Un-Habitat. This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

10 - Youth Livelihoods and Karaoke Work in Kampala's Nightlife Spaces

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Download or read book 10 - Youth Livelihoods and Karaoke Work in Kampala's Nightlife Spaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of Karaoke to the Youth The karaoke work of the youth in Kampala is an upshot of what Biaya (2005; 216) termed the 'crisis of unemployment', which has affected African youth over the last two decades. [...] As youths in the VIP group asserted, 'We discipline ourselves and the bouncers keep the security at the place.' Youths also saw their personal safety as the responsibility of the karaoke group managers who, as in the case with female group members in the Ocean Stars group, had made commitments to next of kin to ensure the personal safety of the girls. [...] As it turns out, Chatterton's and Holland's (2002) conceptions of residual and alternative spaces capture well Kampala's nightlife spaces and the karaoke activities of the youth undertaken therein, and offer insights on the agency the youth might exercise in earning a living in the spaces. [...] Matovu.pmd 165 26/03/2012, 16:41 166 Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces The venues and their managements also eased the karaoke production process for the youth by allowing them to access the venues and musical equipment for their rehearsals. [...] At the same time, karaoke appeared to possess in-built structures to ensure the safety of the youth and to legitimize their work in the eyes of the authorities.