Book chapter
Setting the Scene
Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, pp.1-20
Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice, Springer International Publishing
01/21/2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20679-5_1
Abstract
“Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)” brings together data and case studies from a range of SSA countries. While the findings are diverse, a set of themes predominate: they reveal that violence, embedded in everyday lived realities, is a complex and urgent issue that should be comprehensively probed. While moments of political and xenophobic violence are reflected upon, critical attention is firmly on young women and their grappling with sexual and gender-based violence. The COVID lens has magnified micro-struggles and long-standing structural problems showing how inequities and disadvantages have created an infrastructure through which violence has been exacerbated. There is also a focus on masculinities constructed by oppressive histories, social and economic crises, and state disregard, but with the message that marginality should not be reified, nor the gendered practices of young men oversimplified. In all the chapters, contextual specificities and insightful case studies offer thoughts and arguments about the ways in which violence manifests, what interventionist strategies are compelling, and how young people’s proactive involvement in interventions could begin to address the problem of violence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Setting the Scene
- Creators
- Kammila NaidooOluwafemi AdeagboXiaoming Li
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, pp.1-20
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Series
- Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-031-20679-5_1
- ISSN
- 1566-7847
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/21/2023
- Academic Unit
- Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984362758102771
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