Disappearing youth: Youth as a social shifter in Botswana
Dados Bibliográficos
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ANO | 2004 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | American Ethnologist |
ISSN | 0094-0496 |
E-ISSN | 1548-1425 |
EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
DOI | 10.1525/ae.2004.31.4.589 |
CITAÇÕES | 26 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
In this article, I explore the discourses of youth in Botswana, focusing the analysis on 1995 protests over the murder of a student. I argue that youth should be examined as a social shifter: When invoked, youth indexes sets of social relationships that are dynamic and constructed in the invocation. As people argue over who youth are and how they behave, they index shifting relationships of power and authority, responsibility and capability, agency and autonomy, and the moral configurations of society.