Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa
The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.
The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty.
The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.
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Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa
The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.
The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty.
The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.
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Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa

Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa

Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa

Dealing with Elusive Futures: University Graduates in Urban Africa

Overview

The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.
The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty.
The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783837639490
Publication date: 04/01/2018
Series: Culture and Social Practice
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Noemi Steuer (PhD) is a social anthropologist at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
Michelle Engeler (PhD) works at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Her research interests focus on youth, political change and mobility, particularly in West Africa.
Elísio Macamo (Prof.) is a sociologist at the Departement of Social Sciences and the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.

Table of Contents

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1 Elusive Futures: An Introduction Michelle Engeler Noemi Steuer 9

2 Negotiating the Future: Young Graduates Respond to Career Uncertainty in Tanzania Richard Faustine Sambaiga 29

3 Ça va aller: The Role of Hope in Burkinabe University Graduates' Navigation towards the Future Maike Birzle 53

4 ›Opening up La Chance‹: (Un)certainty among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali Susann Ludwig 69

5 Looking for Better Opportunities: An Analysis of Guinean Graduates' Agency Carole Ammann 93

6 Politics of the Future - Riots of the Now: Temporal Horizons of Youth in Upheavals in England and Guinea Joschka Philipps 123

7 Managing Uncertainty: Youth Unemployment, Responsibilisation and Entrepreneurship Training Programmes in Ethiopia Julian Tadesse 147

8 Epilogue: Uncertainty and Elusive Futures Elísio Macamo 179

On the Authors 195

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