Social inequality has been a constant in latin america, but it is lived in new ways today. Forskereundervisere vip pa institut for antropologi, kobenhavns universitet. Along the way he provides useful excursions through the literature on contemporary violence and african liberation movements. Henrik vigh s original description of the social moratorium of youth was set within a book called navigating terrains of war, in which social navigation is a central concept. Nov 28, 2008 henrik vigh describes the situation of young people in guineabissau as a social moratorium, because patrimonial structures reciprocal returns have diminished drastically to the point of being mere distant possibilities p. Performing the role of subservient youth may follow someone until.
Strategies to assert new identities in rural burkina fasodorte thorsen genderating adulthood. The book ethnographies of uncertainty in africa edited by cooper and pratten focuses specifically on one phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in development studies. Paradoxically, performing youth at political rallies showed a potential way out of the social moratorium of youth which, henrik vigh argues, characterizes the social position of youth in a context where persistent economic decline and generationally asymmetric control over access to resources greatly reduce young peoples space of. Openedition books openedition journals hypotheses calenda. It is from the duality of being positioned and seeking ones own sociogenerational position that this book engages in the debate on contemporary african youth. Hau books special issues in ethnographic theory series volume 2. He has worked with issues of youth and conflict in both europe and west africa. On the one hand, cocaine is positioned as an ethically dubious commodity. These sentiments were at the heart of a social stigma that was ascribed to the. The book is remarkably successful in this ambitious endeavour to address the tensions between structure and agency through the authors concept of social navigation because it combines solidly researched and eloquently formulated ethnography with engagement of a wide range of theory it merits a covertocover read. On racialization, genoglobality and the social imaginary in bissau. This experience of social displacement creates a struggle for emplacement, not.
Preparing for life in ngaoundere, cameroontrond waage child migrants in transit. Youth mobilization and social navigation in bissau. Google scholar vigh, h 2006b the colour of destruction. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina faso. This chapter looks at the relationship between apprehension, social invisibility, and political opacity. The concept of social navigation makes it possible to focus on the way we move within. More ominously, henrik vigh 2006 describes young men in guineabissau as in a state of social death, a liminal social space with no exit. Henrik vigh is professor of anthropology at the university of. Henrik erdman vigh research outputs professors and. Contents youthescapes introductioncathrine christiansen, mats utas and henrik e. Henrik vigh s article examines the notion of social death in bissau, where popular disillusionment seems to be the norm, both for urban youth and the general population. Youth and soldiering in guineabissau, new york, berghan books, 2006. Henrik vighs article examines the notion of social death in bissau, where. Discuss different approaches to the study of violence and.
Social death and violent life chances youth mobilization. Critical journal of the social sciences for the increasingly numerous anthropologists specializing in peace and conflict studies in anthropology henrik vigh s book on young combatants in the war in guineabissau should be compulsory reading material. This article looks at the rise and fall of political legitimacy in bissau, guineabissau. A digital resources portal for the humanities and social sciences. He illuminates the social logics at play and clarifies the motives behind their constitution, conflict engagement, and conciliation. Vigh, 2006, social death and violent life chances, in catrine. Joel robbins is sigrid rausing professor of social anthropology at the univer. Social death refers to the absence of the possibility of a worthy life. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina faso in brill. Social death and violent life chances, which describes how young people try to find their liberty via war and conflicts and the second one is the article of kelly who presents the palestinians lives, trying to live an. Oster farimagsgade 5, opgang e, 53 kobenhavn k, css bygning 33, opgang m, building. Rigorous scholarly research of the social and cultural conditions of organized violence, its genesis, dynamic, and impact, is fundamental to addressing questions of local and global conflict and its impact on the human condition. Cited by 3,152 the following articles are merged in scholar. Search among researches of university of copenhagen.
Jan 01, 2019 ethnographies of transnational organized crime, professor henrik vigh, university of copenhagen. Note contents youthescapes introductioncathrine christiansen, mats utas and henrik e. The book is among the most exciting and important contributions available today. Social death and violent life chances request pdf researchgate. Catrine christiansen, mats utas, and henrik vigh, 31 60. Conflict and society is a part of the berghahn open anthro subscribetoopen initiative, a pilot aiming to convert anthropology journals to full open access on an ongoing and sustainable basis. Tani marilena adams is a social analyst with 30 years of experience directing. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer professorer og lektorer. Vigh navigating youth social death and violent life chances henrik e. Henrik vigh this introduction seeks to outline a contemporary anthropological ap proach to crime and criminalization, an anthropological criminology 2.
The book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of one of africas most misunderstood and demonized militias. Mats utas holds a phd in anthropology and has worked on child soldiers in liberia, and more recently on street corner youth in sierra leone. Liberation heroes and alterpolitics in bissau online article. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer adjunkter og postdoc. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Henrik vigh, professor cited by 1,206 of university of copenhagen, copenhagen read 24 publications contact henrik vigh. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer forskere og undervisere. Expert witness in more than a dozen criminal cases against organ trafficking syndicates in the us, brazil, moldova, kosovo, israel. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in guineabissau, this article sheds light on the social imaginary of urban youth in bissau city. Youth is both a social position which is internally and externally shaped and constructed, as well as part of a larger societal and generational process, a state of becoming. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina. Henrik erdman vigh professors and associate professors.
In an enlightening introduction to a book about youth culture, helena wulff describes. Building on fieldwork in bissau, guineabissau, it illuminates the way people grasp the persistent political instability and uncertainty that characterizes the small country. Youth mobilization and social navigation in bissau city in christiansen, c. We propose a perspective on the youth that assumes this generational cate gory, both a social process and a position. Through the concept of social navigation, this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in west africa. Terrain est une revue semestrielle dethnologie centree sur leurope. William reno, warfare in independent africa, cambridge, cam. Discuss different approaches to the study of violence. Strategies to assert new identities in rural burkina fasodorte thorsen genderating. This article analyzes the military recruitment of urban youths in west africa and analyzes their involvement in conflicts as a form of social navigation. About the author 2010 vincent crapanzano is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and anthropology at the city university of new yorks graduate center. Racializing death in a venezuelan cholera epidemic. Social becoming in and african context, edited by catrine christiansen, mats utas, and henrik vigh. Social becoming in an african context by henrik vigh, catrine christiansen and mats utas 2006, trade paperback at the best online prices at ebay.
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