Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12600243
AutoresT Tom (0000-0002-4732-7110, University of South Africa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen27
Número8
Páginas1169-1187
Fecha de publicación2023-05-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13676261.2023.2208520
OpenAlexW4375864729
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas47

In Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ dispensation, young people’s agency pertaining to the precarious informal sector and livelihoods has so far received limited attention in youth research, youth literature and social policy of the Global South. This article seeks to reduce lacunae in this regard by exploring their lived experiences, situated meanings and agency, basing on Harare City as the heuristic case study. Against prolonged socioeconomic and political crises, spiralling unemployment and poverty, enduring generational divides and accumulating waithood, the ‘new’ dispensation is yet to deliver on developmental transformation for the benefit of young people. Detached from the general view of young people as passive victims of socioeconomic problems, the article advances them as agentive actors in pursuing livelihood pathways and improving individual and household wellbeing. Improving young people lives should be based on empirical evidence of their diverse situations and agency

Agency (philosophy · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Informal sector · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Situated · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Unemployment · Youth studies · Youth unemployment · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics