What Politics?

Elina Oinas, Ph.D. (2001), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is Professor in Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research deals with health, activism and feminisms in Africa. Henri Onodera is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has conducted research on youth activism and prolonged adolescence in Egypt, and everyday lives of young Muslims in Finland.Leena Suurpää is a youth researcher, adjunct professor and civic activist, working for the Finnish Red Cross. Suurpää has an academic career in the Finnish Youth Research Network, studying issues ranging from youth cultures to youth work and youth policy.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsList of Abbreviations1 Evasive Youth, Oblique PoliticsElina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena SuurpääPart 1: Envisioning2 A Question of PowerDanai S. Mupotsa3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary EgyptHenri Onodera4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in TunisiaSofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, EthiopiaMulumebet Zenebe7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and ConsumptionMounir SaidaniPart 2: Entitlement8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina FasoJesper Bjarnesen9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern KenyaNanna Jordt Jørgensen10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in UgandaHenni Alava11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of BeninTilo Grätz12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in SomalilandMariko SatoPart 3: Embeddedness13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political EndsAbdoulaye Sounaye14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young KenyansEija Ranta15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007Ivo Mhike16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in EthiopiaAbebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and RightsÞóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young SomalisPäivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile MoletsaneIndex