The student is not the fisherman
Temporal displacement of young people's identities in Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T A Smith (0000-0001-7221-1868, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 786-811 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2014.926562 |
| OpenAlex | W2078342905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
This paper examines how young Tanzanians have their identities as environmental actors displaced into the future by local adults, teachers, educational institutions and teaching materials which seek to educate them about environmental sustainability and conservation. Whilst there has been considerable attention to young people’s agency in reproducing their own identities, I argue here that the temporal displacement of young identities operates through a network of interlinked structures which act on young people’s lives, including the identity work of young people themselves. Educational material produced by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and the discursive work of adults, both seek to \nposition young people as having agency to act in and make decisions about the environment at an undetermined time in the future. Young people themselves can perform different identities within the space of the school and in the community or family, yet they may also \nunderstand their own identities as only having agency at a temporally distant point. The displacement of young identities has important implications for pedagogy which relates to environmental education, and for how the reproduction of young people’s identities is conceptualised
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Displacement (psychology · Identity (music · Position (finance · Reproduction · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sustainability · Tanzania · Work (physics · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Gender Studies · Psychology · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |