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From: Lorna Zukas <llueker@NU.EDU>
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Editor's Subject: ANN: ASC Seminar Youth in 'waithood': Transitions and social change, 29 November
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Date Written: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:40:17 +0000
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Charles Becker
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ASC Seminar Youth in 'waithood': Transitions and social change,      29
November

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De:   "Afrika Studie Centrum" <Asc@ascleiden.nl>
Date:  Vendredi, 16 novembre, 2012 12:50 pm
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Invitation

Seminar
Youth in 'Waithood': Transitions and social change
29 November, 15.30-17.00

by Alcinda Honwana

This seminar examines the lives of young people struggling with
unemployment and sustainable livelihoods in the context of widespread
social and economic crisis. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad
governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear
but without jobs, young people cannot support themselves and their
families. Most young Africans are living in ‘waithood’, a period of
suspension between childhood and adulthood. This state of limbo is
becoming pervasive and is gradually replacing conventional adulthood.

Alcinda Honwana is currently a visiting professor at the Open University
(OU) in the UK and was professor and chair in International Development
and directed the International Development Centre (IDC) at the OU between
2005 and 2010. Before this, she worked for the Social Science Research
Council in New York where she directed the Children and Armed Conflict
Program and the Africa Program. She has also lectured in Anthropology in
Maputo, Cape Town and New York, and has been a visiting professor of
Anthropology at Columbia University and at the Graduate School of the City
University of New York.

For more details and registration, see our website.

Location: Room 5A42 (5th floor), Pieter de la Courtgebouw, Faculty of
Social Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, a 5-minute walk from Leiden CS

You are all very welcome!

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