Youth Gangs and Street Children

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-132-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

Reihe: Social Identities

The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. These children are perceived to be in a constant state of destitution, violence and vagrancy, and therefore must be a serious threat to society, needing heavy-handed intervention and ‘tough love’ from concerned adults to impose societal norms on them and turn them into responsible citizens. However, such norms are far from the lived reality of these children. The situation is further complicated by gender-based violence and masculinist ideologies found in the wider Ethiopian culture, which influence the proliferation of youth gangs. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heinonen, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Jugendkriminalität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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Poverty and Streetism in Ethiopia

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Methodology

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Culture

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The book

Chapter 1. Ethiopia

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The Country

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Ethnicity

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Consequences of famines in Ethiopia

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Addis Ababa

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Housing

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Street People and Others

Chapter 2. Yilunta:  Shame, Honour and Family pride

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Masculinity

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Yilunta

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Socialization

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Parenting among the Poor

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Children’s role in Parenting their Siblings and Parents.

Chapter 3. Son of a Woman

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Mulu’s Story

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Lemlem’s Story

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The Economics of Street life

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Home Life

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Social Networks

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Motherhood

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Fatherhood

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Playtime

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Education

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Health

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Parenting the Parents

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The Next Generation

Chapter 4. Borco: The Give and Take of Gang Membership

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The Borcos and their kind

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Territory

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Group formation

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Gang Life

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Street Work

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Sharing

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Friendship and Cooperating

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Unrequited Love

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Unrequited Reciprocity

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‘Imediatismo’

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Health and Death

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Crime

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Violence

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Maturing out of the street

Chapter 5. Girls, Sex, and Gang Life

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No Home to go to

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Not Homeless but Jobless: The Bozene

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Girls, Sex, and Gang life

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Slow Descent into Hell

Discussion and Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Heinonen, Paula
Paula Heinonen (née Sinicco) is of Ethiopian/Italian parentage and grew up in Addis Ababa.  She is College Lecturer in Gender Studies and the Anthropology of Development at Hertford, University of Oxford. Previously, she was Tutor and Visiting Fellows Program Coordinator at the International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Head of Research at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.