The book provides a detailed ethnographic account of the sites and. Discuss different approaches to the study of violence. Social death refers to the absence of the possibility of a worthy life. On racialization, genoglobality and the social imaginary in bissau. This chapter looks at the relationship between apprehension, social invisibility, and political opacity. In an enlightening introduction to a book about youth culture, helena wulff describes.
Cited by 3,152 the following articles are merged in scholar. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer professorer og lektorer. Henrik vigh is professor of anthropology at the university of. He illuminates the social logics at play and clarifies the motives behind their constitution, conflict engagement, and conciliation. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in guineabissau, this article sheds light on the social imaginary of urban youth in bissau city.
This article looks at the rise and fall of political legitimacy in bissau, guineabissau. Oster farimagsgade 5, opgang e, 53 kobenhavn k, css bygning 33, opgang m, bygning. Expert witness in more than a dozen criminal cases against organ trafficking syndicates in the us, brazil, moldova, kosovo, israel. Joel robbins is sigrid rausing professor of social anthropology at the univer. He has worked with issues of youth and conflict in both europe and west africa. This article analyzes the military recruitment of urban youths in west africa and analyzes their involvement in conflicts as a form of social navigation. Building on longterm fieldwork with impoverished city dwellers, it looks at the legitimacy and sociality surrounding political figures and movements in the country, commencing with the liberation movement the paigc and ending in the current situation of largescale drugtrafficking. The book is remarkably successful in this ambitious endeavour to address the tensions between structure and agency through the authors concept of social navigation because it combines solidly researched and eloquently formulated ethnography with engagement of a wide range of theory it merits a covertocover read. It is from the duality of being positioned and seeking ones own sociogenerational position that this book engages in the debate on contemporary african youth. Strategies to assert new identities in rural burkina fasodorte thorsen genderating adulthood. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina faso in brill. Mats utas holds a phd in anthropology and has worked on child soldiers in liberia, and more recently on street corner youth in sierra leone. Paradoxically, performing youth at political rallies showed a potential way out of the social moratorium of youth which, henrik vigh argues, characterizes the social position of youth in a context where persistent economic decline and generationally asymmetric control over access to resources greatly reduce young peoples space of. Social death and violent life chances request pdf researchgate.
Google scholar vigh, h 2006b the colour of destruction. Conflict and society is a part of the berghahn open anthro subscribetoopen initiative, a pilot aiming to convert anthropology journals to full open access on an ongoing and sustainable basis. Hau books special issues in ethnographic theory series volume 2. Tani marilena adams is a social analyst with 30 years of experience directing. More ominously, henrik vigh 2006 describes young men in guineabissau as in a state of social death, a liminal social space with no exit. Social becoming in an african context by henrik vigh, catrine christiansen and mats utas 2006, trade paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Youth mobilization and social navigation in bissau city in christiansen, c. Contents youthescapes introductioncathrine christiansen, mats utas and henrik e. Nov 28, 2008 henrik vigh describes the situation of young people in guineabissau as a social moratorium, because patrimonial structures reciprocal returns have diminished drastically to the point of being mere distant possibilities p. Oster farimagsgade 5, opgang e, 53 kobenhavn k, css bygning 33, opgang m, building. Discuss different approaches to the study of violence and. Youth mobilization and social navigation in bissau. We propose a perspective on the youth that assumes this generational cate gory, both a social process and a position.
Along the way he provides useful excursions through the literature on contemporary violence and african liberation movements. The concept of social navigation makes it possible to focus on the way we move within. Performing the role of subservient youth may follow someone until. Catrine christiansen, mats utas, and henrik vigh, 31 60. Henrik vigh s article examines the notion of social death in bissau, where popular disillusionment seems to be the norm, both for urban youth and the general population. About the author 2010 vincent crapanzano is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and anthropology at the city university of new yorks graduate center. Henrik vighs article examines the notion of social death in bissau, where. These sentiments were at the heart of a social stigma that was ascribed to the. Youth is both a social position which is internally and externally shaped and constructed, as well as part of a larger societal and generational process, a state of becoming. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Vigh navigating youth social death and violent life chances henrik e. Forskereundervisere vip pa institut for antropologi, kobenhavns universitet. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer adjunkter og postdoc. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina faso.
Henrik erdman vigh professors and associate professors. Vigh, 2006, social death and violent life chances, in catrine. Henrik vigh, professor cited by 1,206 of university of copenhagen, copenhagen read 24 publications contact henrik vigh. Strategies to assert new identities in rural burkina fasodorte thorsen genderating. Preparing for life in ngaoundere, cameroontrond waage child migrants in transit. On the one hand, cocaine is positioned as an ethically dubious commodity. Racializing death in a venezuelan cholera epidemic. Henrik erdman vigh research outputs professors and. Social inequality has been a constant in latin america, but it is lived in new ways today. Through the concept of social navigation, this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in west africa.
This experience of social displacement creates a struggle for emplacement, not. Social becoming in and african context, edited by catrine christiansen, mats utas, and henrik vigh. The book is among the most exciting and important contributions available today. Henrik erdman vigh publikationer forskere og undervisere. Social death and violent life chances youth mobilization. Liberation heroes and alterpolitics in bissau online article.
Openedition books openedition journals hypotheses calenda. Terrain est une revue semestrielle dethnologie centree sur leurope. Rigorous scholarly research of the social and cultural conditions of organized violence, its genesis, dynamic, and impact, is fundamental to addressing questions of local and global conflict and its impact on the human condition. Henrik vigh this introduction seeks to outline a contemporary anthropological ap proach to crime and criminalization, an anthropological criminology 2. Jan 01, 2019 ethnographies of transnational organized crime, professor henrik vigh, university of copenhagen. Youth and soldiering in guineabissau, new york, berghan books, 2006.
The book ethnographies of uncertainty in africa edited by cooper and pratten focuses specifically on one phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in development studies. The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban burkina. A digital resources portal for the humanities and social sciences. Search among researches of university of copenhagen. William reno, warfare in independent africa, cambridge, cam. Henrik vigh s original description of the social moratorium of youth was set within a book called navigating terrains of war, in which social navigation is a central concept. Note contents youthescapes introductioncathrine christiansen, mats utas and henrik e. Social death and violent life chances, which describes how young people try to find their liberty via war and conflicts and the second one is the article of kelly who presents the palestinians lives, trying to live an. The book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of one of africas most misunderstood and demonized militias. Critical journal of the social sciences for the increasingly numerous anthropologists specializing in peace and conflict studies in anthropology henrik vigh s book on young combatants in the war in guineabissau should be compulsory reading material.
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