Overview
- Offers critical interdisciplinary insights into the politics of marginal categories in Africa
- Explores the social navigation of youth within Africa’s complex political contexts
- Analyzes cases that explore a wide range of national contexts—from the Central African Republic to Zimbabwe
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This book makes an important contribution to the conflict literature and to new ways of thinking about agency and social life in fragile contexts. It does this by engaging with often ignored peace infrastructures. In this book, the contributors highlight different ways in which non-violence is deployed by Africa’s youth to navigate difficult violent contexts. Drawing on empirically grounded case studies from the Central African Republic to Zimbabwe, this book explores how similar (or indeed the same) social infrastructures can be deployed for both violence and non-violence and the important factors that drive many youth to take the non[1]violence option even when order appears to collapse around them. The authors also explore how, for instance, systems of organizing survive violent disruptions to the so-called rhythms of everyday life, and, when they do, how they are then repurposed by youth to help them survive violence.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Akin Iwilade is a Lecturer in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and conducts research on the anthropology of youth and gangs in Africa.
Tarila Marclint Ebiede is a Political Scientist. He is co-founder of Conflict Research Network West Africa. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and the Brussels School of Governance, both in Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth and Non-Violence in Africa’s Fragile Contexts
Editors: Akin Iwilade, Tarila Marclint Ebiede
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13165-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13164-6Published: 24 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13167-7Published: 24 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13165-3Published: 22 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Politics, Development and Children, Regional Development