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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands

Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands

Fokwang, Jude

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 195729602X
ISBN13: 9781957296029
Publisher: Spears Books
Published: Feb 17 2023
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer, Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to position themselves as social adults. Faced with the decline of old predictabilities, the diminishing capacity of the postcolonial state to control its destiny and the precarity of waithood, young people instrumentalise the opportunities and resources afforded by associations to build reciprocal relationships that advance their individual and collective pursuits in a community that has increasingly become transnational. In positioning themselves as moral actors, the young people in this ethnography invest in high profile social and communal projects, including the enforcement of moral orthodoxies that enable readers to appreciate the ways in which moral citizenship is engendered, expanded and eroded simultaneously.

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