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Philipps, Joschka:
A Global Generation? Youth Studies in a Postcolonial World.
In: Societies.
Vol. 8
(2018)
Issue 1
.
- 14.
ISSN 2075-4698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010014
Abstract in another language
Today’s young people navigate a world that becomes simultaneously more interconnected and less capable of silencing long-standing inequities. What analytical perspectives does a sociology of youth and generations require in such a context? This paper makes two suggestions: to conceptualize generations as global rather than regionally bound (cf. Mannheim 1928) and to transgress the colonial bifurcation of academia between sociology for the so-called ‘modern’ world and area studies and anthropology for the so-called ‘developing’ world. Drawing from a large body of literature on African youth that has hitherto remained unheeded in youth studies, as well as from postcolonial theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea and Uganda, I argue that academic representations of African youth constitute a particularly insightful repertoire for investigating the methodological challenges and potentials of a global sociological perspective on youth.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | youth; generation; sociology; epistemology; postcolonial studies; Guinea; Uganda; Africa; globalization; Karl Mannheim |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties 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 > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences > 360 Social problems, social services |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2024 07:56 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2024 07:56 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/90250 |