Navigating terrains of war : youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

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    • Vigh, Henrik

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Navigating terrains of war : youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

Henrik Vigh

(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 13)

Berghahn Books, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Mbuli the Victorious: The Micro-history of an Aguenta Chapter 2. Perspectives and Positions PART II: THE AGUENTAS Chapter 3. Becoming Aguentas Chapter 4. Wars without Enemies PART III: SOCIAL NAVIGATION Chapter 5. The Social Moratorium of Youth Chapter 6. Dubriagem and Social Navigation: Constructing Social Trajectories through War PART IV: ON SHIFTING GROUND Chapter 7. Inhabiting Unstable Terrains: The Everyday of Decline and Conflict Chapter 8. From Negritude to Ineptitude: On Horizons and Broken Imaginaries PART V: IN APPEASEMENT? Chapter 9. Recategorising Men as Children: Bottom-up Reconciliation Chapter 10. Closure Bibliography Index

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