Ambivalent rage
Subtitle: youth gangs and urban protest in Conakry, Guinea
By: Joschka Philipps
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9782343015774
Subjects: Gangs; Youth protest movements; Gang members; Youth; Political activity; Urban Sociology
Description: Why do urban youth gangs protest against a political regime? And why do their protests occur right in the center of a capital city? Ambivalent rage investigates the world of youth gangs and politics in the West-African city of Conakry, Guinea. It sheds lights on how young men organize in gangs, how they perceive, confront and collaborate with the political elite and how his translate their precariousness into political instability.
Notes: "Harmattan Guinée"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and filmography (pages 232-233).