Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives

By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective of »meandering lives« to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea's capital. This history-sensitive perspective represents a fruitful lens to not only depict youth but to also draw a nuanced picture of the functioning of the state in Guinea.

About the author

Michelle Engeler (PhD) is a social anthropologist at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.

Summary

By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective of »meandering lives« to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea's capital. This history-sensitive perspective represents a fruitful lens to not only depict youth but to also draw a nuanced picture of the functioning of the state in Guinea.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Engeler
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783837645705
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4570-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Illustrations: 2 SW-Abb., 4 Farbabb.
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis; Kultur und soziale Praxis; Culture and Social Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Soziologie, Verstehen, State, Politik, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Altersgruppen: Jugendliche, Politics, Culture, Africa, Political Sociology, Ethnology, Youth, auseinandersetzen, West Africa, Sociology and anthropology, Culture and institutions, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), State-Society Relations