Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

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 a...

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Main Author: Vigh, Henrik E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2006]
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology 13
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (268 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782387275
DOI:10.1515/9781782387275

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