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Cities of Youth: Post-Millennial Cases of Mobility and Sociality

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With a focus on cities in eastern and southern Africa, this paper draws on recent scholarship and my own research in Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth social mobility. The paper describes several forms of sociality that brings young women and men together around music, religion, and recreation, including sex.

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  • Karen Tranberg Hansen, 2014. "Cities of Youth: Post-Millennial Cases of Mobility and Sociality," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-001, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Marian Burchardt, 2010. "Ironies of Subordination: Ambivalences of Gender in Religious AIDS Interventions in South Africa," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(1), pages 63-82.
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