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Author:   Elina Oinas ,  Henri Onodera ,  Leena Suurpää
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9789004322448

ISBN 10:   9004322442
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics  Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää Part 1: Envisioning 2 A Question of Power  Danai S. Mupotsa 3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt  Henri Onodera 4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia  Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi 5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?  Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli 6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia  Mulumebet Zenebe 7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption  Mounir Saidani Part 2: Entitlement 8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso  Jesper Bjarnesen 9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya  Nanna Jordt Jørgensen 10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda  Henni Alava 11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin  Tilo Grätz 12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland  Mariko Sato Part 3: Embeddedness 13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends  Abdoulaye Sounaye 14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans  Eija Ranta 15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007  Ivo Mhike 16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia  Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik 17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights  Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir 18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis  Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira 19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’  Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane Index

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Elina Oinas, Ph.D. (2001), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is Professor in Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research deals with health, activism and feminisms in Africa. Henri Onodera is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has conducted research on youth activism and prolonged adolescence in Egypt, and everyday lives of young Muslims in Finland. Leena Suurpää is a youth researcher, adjunct professor and civic activist, working for the Finnish Red Cross. Suurpää has an academic career in the Finnish Youth Research Network, studying issues ranging from youth cultures to youth work and youth policy.

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