Zeitschrift für Pädagogik

Entering the Unknown

Youth within and beyond Capture
Zusammenfassung

Studying ‘youth’ confronts researchers with a critical predicament. How to study a social category that is constantly unfolding anew and that means such varied things in different places? This article addresses these methodological challenges based on qualitative research about youth and political contestation in Conakry, Guinea and Kampala, Uganda. Situating this comparative work within youth scholarship in African studies, the author describes his failure to come to terms with the differences between the two cases, especially because it remained unclear whether these differences emerged from the cases themselves or from his ethnographic access. Drawing on AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of the “surrounds” (2022), the article suggests approaching youth as an elusive category that is not to be exclusively defined and captured, but that also stands for new ways of navigating the world that may elude present modes of detection. The meanings attached to youth in academic research are thus conceptualized as relational and contingent on who is researching whom under what conditions and in what contexts.

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Entering the Unknown
Zeitschrift für Pädagogik Beiheft (ISSN 0514-2717), Ausgabe 1, Jahr 2024, Seite 109 - 130

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Titel

Entering the Unknown

Zeitschrift

Zeitschrift für Pädagogik Beiheft (ISSN 0514-2717), Ausgabe 1, Jahr 2024, Seite 109 - 130

DOI

10.3262/ZPB2401109

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Print ISSN

0514-2717

Verlag

Beltz Juventa

Autoren

Joschka Philipps

Schlagwörter

Jugend
Politik
politics
youth
Methodologie
Vergleich
methodology
comparison
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