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Alber, Erdmute:
Entangled navigations : Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin.
In: Critique of Anthropology.
Vol. 43
(2023)
Issue 4
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- pp. 365-384.
ISSN 1460-3721
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X231216260
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Project's official title Project's id Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of
Bayreuth EXC 2052/1 – 390713894 |
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Abstract
Though often overlooked, parental navigations play an important role in the difficult pathways of rural children through changing eduscapes in northern Benin. Arguing that parents are deeply involved in their children’s trajectories towards making a living, I analyse the care and support parents see themselves as responsible for. A neoliberal and increasingly privatized schooling system creating unequal chances in combination with the demand of ‘Education for all’ responsibilizes parents for their children’s success, and a tight labour market makes it additionally difficult for youth to find positions in the urban space. In consequence, parents are more intensively investing in their children’s education and related costs than ever before, without feeling that these investments lead to what parents value as success. Due to the lack of parental experience in the neoliberal eduscapes and the lack of cultural and social capitals – parents describe it as ‘blindness’ – parental actions in the eduscapes could best be described as navigations which are entangled with those of their children. In these navigations, parents give their children what they never received from their own parents, but also expect or hope them to become what they never were. Both parents and children navigate, I argue, towards an unknown and uncertain future in ‘radical openness’.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Keywords: | Benin; intergenerational relations; neoliberal schooling; parents; responsibilization |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology > Chair Social Anthropology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields |
| Language: | English |
| Originates at UBT: | Yes |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-7653-3 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2024 07:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2024 07:30 |
| URI: | https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/7653 |
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