Navigating terrains of war : youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau
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.
Author: Vigh, Henrik
RCT Author (No longer employed at RCT): Henrik Vigh
ISBN/ISSN: 1-84545-149-X
Source: Berghahn Books
Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION: 1. Mbuli the Victorious:
The Micro-history of an Aguenta; 2. Perspectives
and Positions. PART II THE AGUENTAS: 3. Becoming Aguentas 4.
Wars without Enemies. PART III SOCIAL NAVIGATION: 5.
The Social Moratorium of Youth; 6.
Dubriagem and Social Navigation: Constructing Social Trajectories
through War. PART IV ON SHIFTING GROUND: 7. Inhabiting
Unstable Terrains: The Everyday
of Decline and Conflict; 8. From Negritude to
Ineptitude: On Horizons and Broken Imaginaries; 9. Recategorising
Men as Children: Bottom-up Reconciliation. PART V IN APPEASEMENT?:
10. Closure. Bibliography. Index