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Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin

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Alber, Erdmute:
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin.
In: Critique of Anthropology. Bd. 43 (2023) Heft 4 . - S. 365-384.
ISSN 1460-3721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X231216260

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Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth
EXC 2052/1 – 390713894

Projektfinanzierung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Abstract

Though often overlooked, parental navigations play an important role in the difficult pathways of rural children through changing eduscapes in northern Benin. Arguing that parents are deeply involved in their children’s trajectories towards making a living, I analyse the care and support parents see themselves as responsible for. A neoliberal and increasingly privatized schooling system creating unequal chances in combination with the demand of ‘Education for all’ responsibilizes parents for their children’s success, and a tight labour market makes it additionally difficult for youth to find positions in the urban space. In consequence, parents are more intensively investing in their children’s education and related costs than ever before, without feeling that these investments lead to what parents value as success. Due to the lack of parental experience in the neoliberal eduscapes and the lack of cultural and social capitals – parents describe it as ‘blindness’ – parental actions in the eduscapes could best be described as navigations which are entangled with those of their children. In these navigations, parents give their children what they never received from their own parents, but also expect or hope them to become what they never were. Both parents and children navigate, I argue, towards an unknown and uncertain future in ‘radical openness’.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: Benin; intergenerational relations; neoliberal schooling; parents; responsibilization
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Profilfelder > Advanced Fields > Afrikastudien
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie
Profilfelder
Profilfelder > Advanced Fields
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 370 Bildung und Erziehung
Eingestellt am: 12 Dec 2023 08:41
Letzte Änderung: 28 Mär 2024 07:30
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/88029