Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
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陷入困境：卢旺达青年和成年斗争
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2012
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M. Sommers
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青年人正在改变全球格局。由于今天的人口比以往任何时候都更年轻，城市化程度更高，成年的前景越来越小，而城市移民却在激增。饱受种族灭绝的蹂躏，被誉为惊人的成功，并因其人权记录而受到批评，中非国家卢旺达为抓住世界青年的新挑战提供了一个令人信服的环境。马克·萨默斯（Marc Sommers）聚焦失败的男子气概，城市绝望和强有力的治理，讲述了年轻卢旺达人的戏剧性故事，他们被卡住了，为了成为成年人而努力奋斗，几乎不可能。在卢旺达的文化中，女青年必须等待男青年盖好房子才能结婚，但往往是徒劳的。只有这样，男女青年才能被接受为成年人。然而，卢旺达严重的住房危机意味着大多数男性青年都在走向失败的跑步机上，无法建造他们的房子，但别无选择，只能尝试。随之而来的往往是悲剧。农村青年面临着作为失败的成年人的未来，而许多迁移到首都的人未能获得稳定的生活，并对感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病变得听天由命。《卡住》以对青年、成年人和政府官员的深刻采访为特色，讲述了一个雄心勃勃的、控制欲强的政府试图在一个人口稠密和快速城市化的国家管理一个特别年轻和贫穷的人口的故事。这本开创性的书为非洲人走向成熟的斗争提供了新的视角，并为非洲及其他地区实现安全、发展和共存提出了新的途径。
Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world s youth.Spotlighting failed masculinity, urban desperation, and forceful governance, Marc Sommers tells the dramatic story of young Rwandans who are stuck, striving against near-impossible odds to become adults. In Rwandan culture, female youth must wait, often in vain, for male youth to build a house before they can marry. Only then can male and female youth gain acceptance as adults. However, Rwanda s severe housing crisis means that most male youth are on a treadmill toward failure, unable to build their house yet having no choice but to try. What follows is too often tragic. Rural youth face a future as failed adults, while many who migrate to the capital fail to secure a stable life and turn fatalistic about contracting HIV/AIDS.Featuring insightful interviews with youth, adults, and government officials, "Stuck" tells the story of an ambitious, controlling government trying to govern an exceptionally young and poor population in a densely populated and rapidly urbanizing country. This pioneering book sheds new light on the struggle to come of age and suggests new pathways toward the attainment of security, development, and coexistence in Africa and beyond.Published in association with the United States Institute of Peace"