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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands
Jude Fokwang
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Spears Books
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Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands - Fokwang, Jude
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Synopsis "Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands"
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.
