Youth Between State and Rebel (Dis)Orders: Contesting Legitimacy from Below in Sub-Sahara Africa
| Autor: | Jonna Both, Mirjam de Bruijn |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Social contract
Youth Chad media_common.quotation_subject social media 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Opposition (politics) 02 engineering and technology Mali 050701 cultural studies Diaspora State (polity) Sahel Subsaharan Africa Sociology Legitimacy media_common International relations 021110 strategic defence & security studies 05 social sciences internal vs. external legitimacy protest war on terror Political economy Law ICT Youth protest internal vs. external legitimacy ICT social media war on terror Sahel Political Science and International Relations Terrorism Global citizenship |
| Zdroj: | Small Wars & Insurgencies Small Wars & Insurgencies, 28(4-5), 779-798 |
| Popis: | The Sahel has gained attention in international politics as one of the central theatres in the war on terrorism. International actors in this war seek alliances with states in the region, reinforcing the latter’s military strength and their legitimacy from outside. At the same time, increasingly-connected young populations question the legitimacy of their states, and contest that legitimacy from within and below. In the absence of states delivering any reasonable form of social contract, young people become torn between different governing orders and find themselves in a liminal space. In this article we present the cases of youth in Mali and Chad, who find themselves in a period of re-definition of their position in society and hence search for legitimate structures representation. In this search they may frame their belonging in terms of ethnicity, religion or political opposition – and increasingly also in adherence to global citizenship. New information flows and connectivity among young people in these regions, and between them and the diaspora, has given a new turn to their search for citizenship/belonging and rightful representation. However, whether their search will be successful in this geopolitical context is questionable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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