کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5074854 1373717 2008 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
'We are managing!' Uncertain paths to respectable adulthoods in Accra, Ghana
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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'We are managing!' Uncertain paths to respectable adulthoods in Accra, Ghana
چکیده انگلیسی
Studies have shown that the life experiences and future prospects of young people in many parts of the world today are more complex and less predictable than those of past generations. This has led to a recognition of the need to reconsider the conceptual frameworks applied in youth studies. Thus far, research within geography has mainly focused on young people's paths to adulthood in the Global North or on particularly vulnerable children's lives in the Global South. In this paper an approach based on the 'social navigation' of 'vital conjunctures' is adopted to explore the complex ways in which young people in Ghana navigate their way through life in a city marked by economic hardship and neo-liberal reform. The stories of three young people are presented to show the variety of life conditions, the complex social positions they occupy and their various and shifting future imaginations. The actions of these young people are steered by prevailing cultural ideals and social expectations of what a desirable and respectable future entails and by the actual space of possibility in the urban space they move through. It is argued that achieving respectable adulthoods in present-day Accra is a complicated and convoluted journey involving the careful management of social relationships.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Geoforum - Volume 39, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 2039-2047
نویسندگان
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