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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
141

Being Young in Old Town: Youth Subjectivities and Associational Life in Bamenda

Fokwang, Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga 31 July 2008 (has links)
This study explores the ways in which young people in the neighbourhood of Old Town in Bamenda negotiate the predicament of blocked opportunities and ‘arrested adulthood’ occasioned by the decline in the nation-building project and prolonged socio-economic and moral crisis in Cameroon. I investigate how urban youth in Old Town construct their moral and socio-cultural worlds through involvement in associations. The main finding suggests that faced with growing uncertainty, young people in Bamenda are positioning themselves as important social actors by drawing on local cultural resources such as associations to construct their social worlds that aim to circumvent their exclusion and marginality. In this light, I analyse youth associations as central although not exclusive to negotiating young people’s predicament by focusing on a range of practices through which they seek respectability and claim social adult status. Drawing on the concepts of transition, subjectivities and personhood, I show that young people straddle the worlds of ‘youth’ and social adulthood, statuses that are not only cultural constructions but also the products of differential power relations and social positioning. I contend that the processes of positioning and the production of personhood are largely experienced through involvement in associational life. The study focuses on three associations, namely the Chosen Sisters, the United Sisters and the Ntambag Brothers Association (NBA). Organised on the basis of seniority and gender, I argue that these associations, while negotiating claims to adult status for their members, tend to challenge state-centric notions of citizenship as they simultaneously position themselves as moral actors upon whom society can count on for regeneration. Through a range of social projects, pursued on behalf of and sanctioned by the community, young people in Old Town reaffirm the centrality of interdependence and the situated understanding of social adulthood predicated on the redistribution of one’s success or achievement. This study points to the re-emergent role of associations in negotiating everyday life in the face of crisis. It is a significant contribution towards understanding voluntary and communal associations in general and young people’s modes of transitions into social adulthood.
142

Being Young in Old Town: Youth Subjectivities and Associational Life in Bamenda

Fokwang, Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga 31 July 2008 (has links)
This study explores the ways in which young people in the neighbourhood of Old Town in Bamenda negotiate the predicament of blocked opportunities and ‘arrested adulthood’ occasioned by the decline in the nation-building project and prolonged socio-economic and moral crisis in Cameroon. I investigate how urban youth in Old Town construct their moral and socio-cultural worlds through involvement in associations. The main finding suggests that faced with growing uncertainty, young people in Bamenda are positioning themselves as important social actors by drawing on local cultural resources such as associations to construct their social worlds that aim to circumvent their exclusion and marginality. In this light, I analyse youth associations as central although not exclusive to negotiating young people’s predicament by focusing on a range of practices through which they seek respectability and claim social adult status. Drawing on the concepts of transition, subjectivities and personhood, I show that young people straddle the worlds of ‘youth’ and social adulthood, statuses that are not only cultural constructions but also the products of differential power relations and social positioning. I contend that the processes of positioning and the production of personhood are largely experienced through involvement in associational life. The study focuses on three associations, namely the Chosen Sisters, the United Sisters and the Ntambag Brothers Association (NBA). Organised on the basis of seniority and gender, I argue that these associations, while negotiating claims to adult status for their members, tend to challenge state-centric notions of citizenship as they simultaneously position themselves as moral actors upon whom society can count on for regeneration. Through a range of social projects, pursued on behalf of and sanctioned by the community, young people in Old Town reaffirm the centrality of interdependence and the situated understanding of social adulthood predicated on the redistribution of one’s success or achievement. This study points to the re-emergent role of associations in negotiating everyday life in the face of crisis. It is a significant contribution towards understanding voluntary and communal associations in general and young people’s modes of transitions into social adulthood.
143

The ecology of "third culture kids" : the experiences of Australasian adults /

Cameron, Rosalea. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) --Murdoch University, 2003. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-317).
144

Seasons of adulthood an integrated identity /

Bennett, Donald G. January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 1990. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-147).
145

Faith maturity and adult education in the Baptist Union of Western Canada

Bellous, Kenneth W. January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Bethel Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-136).
146

Identification des besoins de services en santé mentale dans la communauté de l'est de Montréal pour la clientèle adulte présentant des troubles mentaux sévères et persistants et pour les familles et proches qui les cotoient /

Lajoie, Marcelle. January 1991 (has links)
Mémoire (M.P.M.O.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1991. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
147

Faith maturity and adult education in the Baptist Union of Western Canada /

Bellous, Kenneth W. January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Bethel Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-136).
148

Establishing the core self and its significance developmentally a qualitative exploration of the relationship between achieving self cohesion and entrance into adulthood : a project based upon an independent investigation /

Lacy, Joseph James, January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).
149

Faith maturity and adult education in the Baptist Union of Western Canada

Bellous, Kenneth W. January 1994 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Bethel Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-136).
150

Faith maturity and adult education in the Baptist Union of Western Canada

Bellous, Kenneth W. January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Bethel Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-136).

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