Youth Mobilisation as Social Navigation: Reflections on the concept of dubriagem
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Youth Mobilisation as Social Navigation : Reflections on the concept of dubriagem. / Vigh, Henrik Erdman.
In: Cadernos de Estudos Aricanos, Vol. 18/19, 2010, p. 139-164.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth Mobilisation as Social Navigation
T2 - Reflections on the concept of dubriagem
AU - Vigh, Henrik Erdman
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article sheds light on the mobilisation of young people into conflict. It argues that warfare constitutes a terrain of possibility for urban youth in Guinea‑Bissau, and shows how they navigate war as an event by tactically manoeuvring within the social ties and options that arise in such situations. Building on the Guinean Creole term of dubriagem, the article proposes the concept of social navigation as an analytical optic able to shed light on praxis in unstable environments. The concept of social navigation makes it possible to focus on the way we move within changing social environments. It is processuality squared, illuminating motion within motion. The article thus advocates an analysis of praxis that takes its point of departure in a Batesonian and intermorphological understanding of action in order to further our understanding of the acts of youth in conflict.
AB - This article sheds light on the mobilisation of young people into conflict. It argues that warfare constitutes a terrain of possibility for urban youth in Guinea‑Bissau, and shows how they navigate war as an event by tactically manoeuvring within the social ties and options that arise in such situations. Building on the Guinean Creole term of dubriagem, the article proposes the concept of social navigation as an analytical optic able to shed light on praxis in unstable environments. The concept of social navigation makes it possible to focus on the way we move within changing social environments. It is processuality squared, illuminating motion within motion. The article thus advocates an analysis of praxis that takes its point of departure in a Batesonian and intermorphological understanding of action in order to further our understanding of the acts of youth in conflict.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - youth
KW - conflict
KW - social navigation
KW - flexibility
KW - praxis
U2 - http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2597
DO - http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2597
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18/19
SP - 139
EP - 164
JO - Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
JF - Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
SN - 1645-3794
ER -
ID: 22194951