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

D. Fokwang

Description

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. Jude D. Fokwang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Regis University. He is also an ethnographic filmmaker and director of the award-winning film, Something New in Old Town (2016). His research and publications have focused on the sociocultural and political subjectivities of young people, women and traditional leaders in Cameroon and South Africa.

Sujets

• Regional Studies
• African Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Spears Media Press
• Date de parution: 14 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781957296036
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 24 Mo

Extrait

Cultîvatîng Moral Cîtîzensîp

Cultivating Moral Citizenship

An Ethnography of Young People’s Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands

J U D E D.  O K WA N G

Séàŝ Bôôŝ Dévé, Côôàô

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For dad, wo înspîred and guîded me îno e word o naîve enograpy and Mom, or nudgîng me ono îger eîgs

Contents

Lîs o Fîgures îx Preace xî Acknowedgmens xv

Introduction: he Predicament of Being Young in Africa 1

1. Outsider and Native: Fieldwork in Old Town, Bamenda 23

2. PersonHood, Social AdultHood and Society in tHe Grasslands 37

3. Cultivating Moral Spaces: Rules, Routines and tHe Constitution of Everyday Life in Young People’s Associations 57

4. Sanitary Activism and Urban Renewal in Old Town 95

5. Cultivating Respect, Gendered Spaces and Moral Transformation in Old Town 123

6. Alternate PatHways to Social AdultHood and tHe Economy of Faux Dossiers 165

Conclusion: PersonHood, Moral Action, and Social AdultHood in tHe Cameroon Grasslands 179

Reerences 185 ïndex 201

List of Figures

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