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Youth at the crossroads

dc.contributor.authorVorhölter, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-28T08:27:13Z
dc.date.available2014-11-28T08:27:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17875/gup2014-752
dc.format.extent337
dc.format.mediumPrint
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGöttinger Reihe zur Ethnologie - Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.otherOAPEN
dc.titleYouth at the crossroads
dc.title.alternativeDiscourses on socio-cultural change in post-war Northern Uganda
dc.typemonograph
dc.price.print29,00
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-978-3-86395-169-6-9
dc.identifier.ppn795552688
dc.relation.ppn79554863X
dc.description.printSoftcover, 17x24
dc.subject.divisionpeerReviewed
dc.relation.isbn-13978-3-86395-169-6
dc.relation.issn2199-5346
dc.identifier.articlenumber8101321
dc.identifier.internisbn-978-3-86395-169-6
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume007
dc.type.subtypethesis
dc.subject.bisacSOC002010
dc.notes.oaiprint
dc.subject.vlb750
dc.subject.bicJ
dc.subject.bicJFSL
dc.description.abstractengBased on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). Specifically, it focuses on the generation that was born and grew up during the 20-year war: How do members of this generation perceive and evaluate socio-cultural changes which occurred in Acholi society throughout the war years? How do they imagine their future society? And how do they react to the expectations directed at them by their elders? In order to answer these questions, the book draws on rich ethnographic material. It provides an in-depth analysis of how imaginations of the post-war society are contested and negotiated between different groups of social actors – youth and elders, men and women as well as local, national and international actors. While some try to re-establish former cultural practices and conventions and call for a ‘retraditionalization’ of Acholi society, others lobby for ‘modernization’ and attempt to establish ‘new’ social structures, values and norms which are strongly influenced by local understandings of ‘the Western culture’. The book presents numerous examples of the multiple and complex ways young people strategically position themselves in these debates and make use of the various discourses on culture, tradition and modernity in their negotiations of generational, gender, family, and peer-to-peer relations.
dc.subject.engYouth
dc.subject.engUrban Gulu
dc.subject.engUganda
dc.subject.eng20-year war
dc.subject.engAcholi society
dc.subject.engFamily
dc.subject.engPeer-to-peer relations
dc.identifier.oapen512788
dc.notes.vlb-printlieferbar
dc.intern.doi10.17875/gup2023-752
dc.identifier.purlhttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?isbn-978-3-86395-169-6
dc.identifier.asin3863951697
dc.subject.themaJ
dc.subject.themaJBSL


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