Sökning: "Africa youth"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Africa youth.

1. 1. Sweet Battlefields : Youth and the Liberian Civil War

   Författare :Mats Utas; Ovesen Jan; Alcinda Honwana; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Liberia; anthropology; civil war; youth; children; child soldiers; street children; conflict; violence; women in war; West Africa; liminality; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents an ethnography of youth in Liberia and of how their lives became affected by a civil war which raged in the country between 1990 and 1997. The focus is on the experiences, motivations, and reflections of young combatants who fought for a variety of rebel factions. LÄS MER

3. 2. "We are like Chameleons" : Changing Mediascapes, Cultural Identities and City Sisters in Dar es Salaam

   Författare :Ylva Ekström; Lowe Hedman; Bodil Folke Frederiksen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media; Popular Culture; Africa; Tanzania; Gender; Globalisation; Youth; Ethnography; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

   Sammanfattning : The consequences of expanding mediascapes and processes of cultural globalisation during the early 21st century is the focus of this thesis. The author has conducted extensive field studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LÄS MER

4. 3. Diaspora at Home? : Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space

   Författare :Jesper Bjarnesen; Sten Hagberg; Mats Utas; Joseph Hellweg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wartime mobilities; home; transnational space; diaspora; urban anthropology; West Africa; conflict; return; migration; youth; intergenerational relations; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : In the period 1999-2007, more than half a million Burkinabe returned to Burkina Faso due to the persecution of immigrant labourers in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Ultranationalist debates about the criteria for Ivorian citizenship had intensified during the 1990s and led to the scapegoating of immigrants in a political rhetoric centred on notions of autochthony and xenophobia. LÄS MER

5. 4. Conversion and Contextual Conceptions of Christ: A Missiological Study among Young Converts in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

   Författare :Carl Sundberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; Kä Mana; Buana Kibongi; B.; Bujo; Kongo; Ta Kimbangi; Brazzaville; Republic of Congo; Conversion conversion stories; Christology Africa; Missiology Congo Brazzaville; Eglise Evangélique du Congo; African Traditional Religion; Africa youth; African Independent Churches; Nganga; Ndoki; Kindoki; Kristna kyrkans historia;

   Sammanfattning : This study presents contextual conceptions of Christ among young urban converts, within the Evangelical Church of Congo (EEC). The basic data consists of interviews, conversion stories, gathered during fieldwork in 1995-1997. From the data explicit and implicit conceptions of Christ were deducted and accounted for in the study. LÄS MER

7. 5. Rural encounters with the city. A study of the gendered livelihood strategies of migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   Författare :Elizabeth Dessie; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural-urban migration; youth; gender; livelihoods; Addis Ababa; Ethiopia;

   Sammanfattning : More than half of the world’s population growth will be accounted for by cities in the coming decades, with sub-Saharan Africa at the centre of this change. While studies have pointed to the disproportionate effects unemployment and urban poverty have on women in urban areas, gender-focused livelihood research continues to occupy a peripheral space in the field of Human geography. LÄS MER