{"product_id":"serious-youth-in-sierra-leone-an-ethnography-of-performance-and-global-connection-paperback","title":"Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Bolten\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerational anxieties over what will happen to the young are unfolding starkly in Sierra Leone, where the civil war that raged between 1991 and 2002--characterized by the extreme youthfulness of the rebel movement--triggered mass fear of that generation being \"lost.\" Even now, fifteen years later, \"children of the war\" are regarded with suspicion. These fears stem largely from young people's easy embrace of globalization, enabled by the flood of international humanitarian aid following the war. Sierra Leone's increasingly global connectivity has triggered a cultural arms race between adults and their children, with adults often controlling, manipulating, and quashing the ambitions of the young. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough an investigation of the lives and struggles of Sierra Leonean youth in the northern capital town of Makeni, \u003cem\u003eSerious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection\u003c\/em\u003e turns these fears on their head. Author Catherine Bolten argues that urban youth in Makeni are largely a conservative social force, rather than rebellious or revolutionary--the young want to have steady incomes, start families, and be respected. Adults misrecognize their children's conservative values and desires as radical because they interpret global engagement as a desire for social upheaval, rather than as a way to be noticed and taken seriously. Bolten articulates the social processes that lead to children--the future of a society--becoming a representation of a society's deepest anxieties about the destruction of its values and ideologies, and why those might be falsely construed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSerious Youth in Sierra Leone\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume in the series\u003cstrong\u003e ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Bolten\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52516391682355,"sku":"9780190886684","price":78.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QzFwQXo5dHVtbTNETElicm5uNExTZz09.webp?v=1760432317","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/serious-youth-in-sierra-leone-an-ethnography-of-performance-and-global-connection-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}