Hope is cut
Subtitle: youth, unemployment, and the future in urban Ethiopia
By: Daniel Mains
Series: Global youth; Global youth
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781439904794; 9781439904817
Subjects: Social conditions; Employment; Urban youth; Attitudes; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: youth, hope, stratification, and time; title: The historical and cultural roots of unemployment and stratification in urban Ethiopia; title: Imagining hopeful futures through khat and film; title: "We live like chickens, we are just eating and sleeping": progress, education and the temporal struggles of young men; title: Working towards hope: youth unemployment, occupational status, and values; title: Hopeful exchanges: reciprocity and changing dimensions of urban stratification; title: Spatial fixes to temporal problems: migration, social relationships, and work; title: Conclusions: sustaining hope in the present and the future.