Index

Botshabelo Maja (Independent Scholar, Republic of South Africa) (University of the Witwatersrand)

Black Youth Aspirations

ISBN: 978-1-80262-026-9, eISBN: 978-1-80262-025-2

Publication date: 10 November 2021

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Maja, B. (2021), "Index", Black Youth Aspirations, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-205. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-025-220211007

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Copyright © 2022 Botshabelo Maja. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Adversity
, 29–30

Age categorization
, 4

Agency
, 7, 96, 99, 113–116, 175

Agentic capabilities
, 114–116, 118–121, 123, 153–154

Agentic transactions
, 96, 114–116, 118–121, 123

Anticipation
, 89

Aspiration
, 1–3, 10–11, 87, 89–90, 93–94, 106, 178

immediate objects of
, 95

Aspirational capacities
, 90–91

Aspire
, 7, 11–12, 91

Aspirer
, 101

Basic capabilities
, 9

Beliefs
, 5, 16

Black consciousness
, 10

Black female youth

Karah case
, 22–33

Naledi case
, 40–45

narratives of
, 21, 49–50

Nelo case
, 45–49

Wandi case
, 33–40

Black male youth

Akhona case
, 59–66

Mercury case
, 66–72

Mzwandile case
, 79–85

narratives of
, 50, 85–86

Thabang case
, 50–59

Vuvu case
, 73–79

Black middle class youth
, 90

Black South African youth
, 113

Black urban South African’s capacity to aspire
, 20

Black urban youth
, 115

Black young men
, 174–175

Black young women
, 174–175

Black youth
, 10

of immigrant parents
, 98

narratives of black female youth
, 21–50

narratives of black male youth
, 50–86

Brutality
, 15

Buzzfeed
, 78, 159

Capabilities
, 9–12

agentic
, 96

approach
, 10

of person
, 10

Capacity
, 7, 10, 13, 90–92, 114, 177

Capacity to aspire
, 18–19, 21, 87–89, 92–93, 113, 116, 119, 123–124, 126–127, 171–172

conceptual framework of
, 90–92

gender role in
, 173–174

understanding
, 1–13

Capital
, 8

Capitalism
, 7–8

Case study methodology
, 18–19, 171

Centrality of youth
, 18

Children
, 15–16

Combined capabilities
, 9

Community space

Akhona case
, 65

Mercury case
, 68–71

Mzwandile case
, 83–84

Naledi case
, 40–43

Nelo case
, 47–49

Thabang case
, 53–57

Vuvu case
, 76–78

Wandi case
, 36–39

Compass
, 2

Compound family
, 16

Compton
, 58–59

Concerted cultivation
, 150

Congregation
, 165

OATS of
, 162–165

Consumerism
, 17

Correspondence principle
, 113

Crime
, 17

Cultural appreciation
, 8–9

Cultural capacity
, 88

Cultural capital
, 8

Cultural-ecological theory
, 14

Culture
, 4–5, 88

of consumerism
, 17

as inclusive of capacity to aspire
, 5

of patriarchy
, 17–18

Custodianship
, 101, 115–116

Democracy
, 15

in South Africa
, 18

Depoliticization of youth
, 17

Deprivation
, 87–88

Development
, 4–5, 88

Direct personal agency
, 96

Disablers for capacity to aspire
, 98–99

Doxic logic
, 14–15

Economic capital
, 8

Emergent logic
, 14–15

Empowerment
, 90

Enablers for capacity to aspire
, 98–99

Ethics of possibility
, 9, 19–20, 89, 91

Experience
, 88

Exposure, OATS of
, 152–156

Extended family
, 16

External space
, 27–31

Extramurals, OATS of
, 125–132

Facebook
, 22, 32

Family
, 15–16

structure
, 16

Female middle class youth
, 117–118

Female urban youth
, 22

Freedom
, 8–9

Future trials
, 105, 107, 117, 179

Future-oriented cultural capacity
, 2, 88

Futuristic thinking
, 9, 88

Futurity
, 8

Gender role in capacity to aspire
, 173–174

Gendered socio-economic marginalization
, 17–18

Habituated logic
, 14–15

Hardship
, 29–30

Hip-Hop music
, 57

Hirschman’s concept
, 184–185

Hobbies, OATS of
, 137–141

Hope
, 89, 104–105, 125, 177

Human capability
, 9

Human existence
, 7–8

Hyphenated self
, 13–14

Imagination
, 9

Imagine
, 103–104, 125

Immediate objects
, 95

aspiration of
, 89, 114, 118, 122–123, 175

Imposed spaces
, 102–103, 114, 176

elements of
, 104–110

Individual

capacity to aspire
, 88–89

motivational trait
, 88

role
, 19

spaces
, 22

Inequality
, 7–8

Information and communication technologies (ICT)
, 16–17

Information Technology (IT)
, 79–80

Inheritance codes
, 97

Instagram
, 22, 32

Intended spaces
, 102–103, 114, 176–177

elements of
, 103–104

Inter-disciplinary approaches
, 8

Intermediate objects
, 95–96

aspiration of
, 114, 118, 122–123, 149, 175, 183

Internal capabilities
, 9

Intransigent agentic transaction
, 157

Job shadow, OATS of
, 156–158

Knowledge
, 16, 88

Latchkey children
, 16

Liberal theory
, 7–8

Lived cultures
, 14–15

Male middle class youth
, 13

Maps
, 7, 19–20, 88–89, 92, 99, 114, 119, 121, 123–124

Marxism
, 7–8

Materiality
, 9, 101, 104, 153

Mediants
, 13–15, 153

Meta-capacity
, 12, 89, 91–92, 104, 124, 177, 180

to aspire
, 95

Middle class female urban youth
, 22

Middle class female youth
, 90–91, 115, 118, 149, 172–173, 185

Middle class male youth
, 90–91, 118, 120

Middle class youth
, 98–99

Multi-disciplinary
, 10

Navigational capacity
, 90

Navigational information
, 2

Navigational metaphor
, 7, 92, 99–100

Navigational tools
, 7, 88–89, 91–92, 99, 114, 119, 121, 123–124

Normative monism of recognition
, 8–9

Normativity
, 153

Norms
, 5

Notion of capacity
, 10

Notion of desire
, 11

Nuclear family
, 16

Objects, agency, tools, and spaces framework (OATS framework)
, 87, 91–92, 94, 114, 177, 181

conceptual framework
, 20

conceptual framework of capacity to aspire
, 90–92

cross case of youth activities
, 125–165

cross case of youth groupings
, 115–125

genesis
, 87–88

key tenets
, 88–90

theory
, 116

Objects
, 94, 96, 113–115

immediate
, 95

intermediate
, 95–96

Oppression
, 15

Participation
, 90

Pastness
, 8

Patriarchy, culture of
, 17–18

Peers, OATS of
, 141–144

Personal family space
, 22

Akhona case
, 59–65

Karah case
, 22–27

Mercury case
, 66–68

Mzwandile case
, 79–83

Naledi case
, 40–43

Nelo case
, 45–47

Thabang case
, 50–53

Vuvu case
, 73–75

Wandi case
, 33–36

Perspectival dualist analysis
, 8–9

Political economy of aspiration
, 88–89

Political moral
, 152–153

Politics of hope
, 9, 19–20, 89, 104

Positive male role models
, 3

Poverty
, 4–5, 29–30, 87–88

working class youth of
, 173–174

Practice of mediation
, 173

Praxis
, 9

Precariatization
, 13

Primary custodianship
, 101

Prognostication, OATS of
, 148–152

Prohairesis
, 9

Provisionality
, 144–145

Recognition
, 8–9, 19–20, 95

normative monism of
, 8–9

Reflexivity
, 144–145

Rich social networking spaces
, 97–98

Role models/modelling
, 68

OATS of
, 132–137

School society
, 15–16

Scouts movement
, 15

Secondary custodianship
, 101

Sedimented traditions
, 88

Segregation
, 15

Senses
, 9

Service learning
, 152–153

Sextant
, 2

Single parent
, 16

Situatedness
, 144–145

Social arrangements
, 10, 91

Social capital
, 8

Social class related patterns
, 97

Social life, thickness of
, 175–176

Social media

OATS of
, 158–162

platforms
, 22

Social Network Site (SNS)
, 158

Social relatedness
, 152–153

Social safety nets
, 100–101, 114, 123–124, 176

Social spaces
, 8, 10, 88–89

Society role
, 19

Socio-economic status
, 171–172

Socio-political mechanisms
, 9

South Africa
, 1

academic work
, 4

black township youth aspirations
, 4

definition of youth
, 5

understanding South African youth culture in global context
, 13–20

Spaces
, 101–102, 113–114, 116–117, 119, 125, 176

forms of
, 102–103

imposed spaces
, 102–103

intended spaces
, 103

time as
, 107–110

Specificity
, 144–145

Standpoint theory
, 14

Storytelling, OATS of
, 144–148

Sustainable livelihoods
, 7–8

Thought capability
, 9

Time
, 116–117

as space
, 107–110

Tools
, 99, 101, 113–114, 176

social safety nets
, 100–101

Windows
, 100

Transactions
, 175–176

Transgenerational family scripts
, 97, 175–176

Twitter
, 22

United Democratic Front (UDF)
, 15

Usual Sxspects (Hip-Hop group)
, 142, 144, 154, 173

Valuable regenerative resources
, 3, 18–19, 132

Values
, 5, 16

Violence
, 17

Virtual space
, 21–22

Akhona case
, 65–66

Karah case
, 33–40

Mercury case
, 71–72

Mzwandile case
, 84–85

Naledi case
, 44–45

Nelo case
, 49

Thabang case
, 57–59

Vuvu case
, 78–79

Wandi case
, 39–40

Voice
, 90, 179–180

Well-being
, 8–9

Windows
, 100, 114

Working class
, 95

bias
, 172

communities in India
, 171

female urban youth
, 22

female youth
, 120–122

male youth
, 122–125

schools
, 113

Working class youth
, 13, 90–91, 98–99, 113, 171

of poverty
, 173–174

transition patterns
, 90–91

Young
, 3, 15–16

culture in and out of school
, 16–17

exploration
, 21

male middle class youth
, 13

South African youth culture in global context
, 13–20

working class youth
, 13

Youth

and culture
, 5

culture post-democracy
, 5

culture pre-democracy
, 5

self-formation
, 18–19

social media impacts on
, 161–162

township and suburban
, 89

Youth activities

cross case of
, 125–165

OATS of congregation
, 162–165

OATS of exposure
, 152–156

OATS of extramurals
, 125–132

OATS of hobbies
, 137–141

OATS of job shadow
, 156–158

OATS of peers
, 141–144

OATS of prognostication
, 148–152

OATS of role modelling
, 132–137

OATS of social media
, 158–162

OATS of storytelling
, 144–148

Youth groupings

cross case of
, 115–125

middle class female youth
, 115–118

middle class male youth
, 118–120

working class female youth
, 120–122

working class male youth
, 122–125

YouTube
, 159