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The Time of Youth
Alcinda Honwana
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD; KCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Most young Africans are living in “waithood,” a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear—without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually replacing conventional adulthood. And with the deepening of the world economic crisis, youth in Europe, North America and other parts of the world face the same crisis of joblessness and restricted futures.
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Most young Africans are living in “waithood,” a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear—without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually replacing conventional adulthood. And with the deepening of the world economic crisis, youth in Europe, North America and other parts of the world face the same crisis of joblessness and restricted futures.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Kumarian Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
West Hartford, CT, United States
ISBN
9781565494725
SKU
V9781565494725
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Ref
99-2
About Alcinda Honwana
Alcinda M. Honwana is a Visiting Professor of Anthropology and International Development at the Open University (UK), and at Columbia University and CUNY Graduate Centre in New York (USA). Her latest publications include Child Soldiers in Africa, 2006; Makers & Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa, 2005 (co-edited).
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