Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes This editorial and most articles in this special issue use the terms children, youth young people interchangeably refer under age of 25 years (United Nations 1989 United Nations, 1989. Convention on Rights Child [online]. Available from: http://www.unchchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm [Accessed 17 December 2002]. [Google Scholar]). The seeds for were sown some time back at a seminar hosted by Centre Child-Focussed Anthropological Research...

Abstract At a time when children and youth are heralded by scholars international organisations alike as active agents in the construction of their own lives individuals with participatory rights, I propose this article, based on my fieldwork street child protection policies Cape Verde, an account interplay between social interventions, exploring tension calls for agency right to autonomy at theoretical level enduring disciplinary ideas about rehabilitation. Keywords: childrenCape...

As I was writing this introduction, Guinea-Bissau rocked by yet another “political crisis.” On the night of March 1 and 2, 2009, army chief staff, General Batista Tagme Na Waie, president Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardino “Nino” Vieira, were killed in space a few hours. to be expected, articles mushroomed international press following days, sporting headlines that we have long since become accustomed to, such as “Guinea-Bissau Collapse Deepens after Leader Killed” (Pitman 2009) or Threatens...

In this article I portray the marginality, exclusion and social immobility of young people living in small port Bubaque Bijagó Islands. Reluctant to be involved village economy, but excluded from port's market aware weakness national migration Europe appears them only viable means promotion. Income education are not sole motivations their aspirations mobility, however. The men's fantasies based on a developmentalist narrative framework that creates cartography centres peripheries. Physical...

Nesse artigo, argumento que os thugs, jovens membros de gangs na cidade da Praia (Cabo Verde), não são uma descontinuidade histórica ou social, mas expressão paroxística elementos próprios cultura do país, dinâmica identitária própria dos bairros e masculinidade hegemônica. Na mesma medida, também reação segundo lógicas sociais culturais locais através apropriação traços das culturas juvenis globais, às violentas transformações econômicas têm marcado a sociedade cabo-verdiana época pós-abertura.

Abstract: Since the 1960s scholars have criticized notion of development, arguing that rhetoric and practice international development serve imperialistic interests, destroying local orders colonizing consciousnesses. Through analysis “will to be modern” a group young boys living in Bubaque Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau), this article shows how very can reworked employed an African context, becoming means for exerting social demands against traditional authorities, idiom express aspirations,...

In this article I will trace back the feelings of peripherality and marginality expressed by a group young men in Bijagó Islands to historical political processes that marginalised rural communities Guinea-Bissau late colonial post-independence period excluded them from formation state. These were supported justified concomitant diffusion ideas civilisation development produced still produce ideological opposition between urban populations communities. Following seminal work Anna Tsing,...

L’antropologia delle emozioni e legata in prevalenza a contesti etnografici descritti, direbbero Gupta Ferguson (a cura, 1997), come “campi puri”. La maggior parte degli antropologi che lavora sulle emozioni, ha osservato William Reddy (1999, p. 256), utilizzano nelle loro etnografie il presente etnografico si avvalgono di generalizzazioni fondano implicitamente su una concezione dei culturali ambiti significati articolati logicamente un sistema segnati da confini precisi. Anche quando viene...

Chronicle of the XII International Tourism Forum, organized by IPDT Portugal and dedicated to analysis new tourism trends.

O bairro 6 de Maio na Damaia, concelho Amadora, às portas Lisboa, é um autoconstruído, que abriga desde o final da década 1970 uma comunidade origem maioritariamente cabo-verdiana. está a ser demolido e vai destruído até 2015. Baseado num trabalho etnografia sobre vida no bairro, Ghetto Six utiliza materiais sobraram das operações demolição casas como suportes para inscrição 'retrato' do através técnicas mistas incluem fotografia pintura. conjunto peças em exibição configura-se instalação...

His fields of research include the anthropology mobility and travel, nexus between

His fields of research include the anthropology mobility and travel, nexus between

Noel B. Salazar obtuvo su doctorado en Antropología la Universidad de Pennsylvania (EE.UU.). Actualmente es catedrático Católica Lovaina, Bélgica, y profesor visitante Bérgamo, Italia. Sus campos investigación abarcan antropología movilidad del viaje, el nexo entre lo local global, discursos e imaginarios sobre otredad, patrimonio, intermediación cultural cosmopolitismo. Es autor Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond (2010) Momentous Mobilities: Anthropological...

In this article, based on ethnographic research in Vila Real, Portugal, and carried out within the framework of "Dourotur" project, I describe local expectations tourism a context prolonged economic decay marginalization by national policies. Though acknowledging demands for as legitimate, question too straightforward link between development that has become mantra Portugal. maintain that, order to be effective face expectations, policies need adapted territories developed participative...