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Philipps, Joschka:
Entering the Unknown : Youth within and beyond Capture.
In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik.
Vol. 70
(2024)
Issue 1
.
- pp. 109-130.
ISSN 0044-3247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3262/ZPB2401109
Abstract in another language
Studying ‘youth’ confronts researchers with a critical predicament. How to study a social category that is constantly unfolding anew and that means such varied things in different places? This article addresses these methodological challenges based on qualitative research about youth and political contestation in Conakry, Guinea and Kampala, Uganda. Situating this comparative work within youth scholarship in African studies, the author describes his failure to come to terms with the differences between the two cases, especially because it remained unclear whether these differences emerged from the cases themselves or from his ethnographic access. Drawing on AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of the “surrounds” (2022), the article suggests approaching youth as an elusive category that is not to be exclusively defined and captured, but that also stands for new ways of navigating the world that may elude present modes of detection. The meanings attached to youth in academic research are thus conceptualized as relational and contingent on who is researching whom under what conditions and in what contexts.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Youth; Politics; African Studies |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa > Chair Sociology of Africa - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2024 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2024 07:01 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/90245 |