Rebellion as a lifestyle : representations of youth revolts in Cameroon

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dc.contributor.advisorTaylor, Ianen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNtamack, Sergeen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Political Science.
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-27T14:25:16Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-15T10:49:34Z
dc.date.available2010-10-27T14:25:16Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-12-15T10:49:34Z
dc.date.issued2010-12
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
dc.descriptionBibliography
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research has used a critical discourse analysis approach encompassing postcolonial theory and theory of media effects in order to investigate the influence of political discourse in the media upon youth’s violence in Cameroon. As a result it has been found that the use of private violence by young people in urban cities has become ordinary. Such an attitude reflects among other some aspects of youth’s lifestyle designed to cope with the hardship of their social status and to resist the elite’s dominance. While no counter-narrative has been found in the independent publications about the portrayal of youth’s violence as criminal by the state-owned press, the young people nevertheless have produced through a street culture a narrative deconstructing the political discourse in the media and highlighting their grievances in a more or less violent tone. Thus the use of private violence during the riot in February 2008, is far from an isolated (re)action of angry young people , it obeys the very practicality of their existence and the political turmoil it might cause is incidental to the way of life in which it is embedded.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsing het ‘n kritiese diskoers analise-benadering gebruik wat ‘n postkoloniale teorie en ‘n teorie van media-effekte insluit om sodoende die invloed van politieke diskoers in die media op jeuggeweld in Kameroen, te ondersoek. Daar is gevolglik gevind dat die gebruik van private geweld deur jongmense in stedelike gebiede normaal geword het. So ‘n houding reflekteer onder andere sommige aspekte van die jeug se leefstyl wat ontwerp is om die ontbering van hul sosiale status te hanteer en ook die elite se dominasie te weerstaan. Ofskoon geen teen-narratief sover gevind is in die onafhanklike publikasies oor die uitbeelding van jeuggeweld as krimineel en die publikasies van die staatsbeheerde pers wat die jeug uitbeeld met min agentskap nie, het jongmense wel ‘n teen-narratief geskep deur ‘n straat-kultuur. Hierdie teen-narratief dekonstruktueer die politieke diskoers in die media en onderstreep hul griewe in ‘n geweldadige toon. Dus die gebruik van private geweld gedurende die onluste in Februarie 2008, wat nie as ‘n geïsoleerde (re)aksie van woedende jongmense gesien kan word nie, is getrou aan die wese van hulle bestaan en die politieke onrus wat dit moontlik mag veroorsaak, is bykomstig tot die leefstyl waarin dit vasgelê is.”en_ZA
dc.format.extent139 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5456
dc.language.isoenEN_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectUrban youth -- Rebellion -- Cameroonen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Political scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Political scienceen_ZA
dc.subject.geogCameroon -- Politics and government -- 1982-en_ZA
dc.subject.geogCameroon -- Economic conditions -- 1960-en_ZA
dc.subject.geogCameroon -- Social conditions -- 1960-en_ZA
dc.subject.lcshYouth and violence -- Cameroonen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMass media and youth -- Cameroonen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshUrban violence -- Cameroonen_ZA
dc.subject.otherPolitical Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleRebellion as a lifestyle : representations of youth revolts in Cameroonen_ZA
dc.typeThesis
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