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标题：Making modernity asscountable: A case study of youth in Mozambique
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作者：Macamo, Elísio
期刊名称：Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
印刷版ISSN：1645-3794
电子版ISSN：2182-7400
出版年度：2010
期号：18/19
页码：19-46
DOI：10.4000/cea.73
语种：English
出版社：Centro de Estudos Internacionais
摘要：According to the philosopher Stephen Toulmin there is a standard account of modernity which gives primacy to the written over the oral, the universal over the particular, the general over the local and the timeless over the timely. This paper draws from Toulmin to argue that accounts of modernity in Africa are based on the assumptions of the standard account of modernity to deny modernity to Africa even though these assumptions inhere in actual practices as the analysis of the work of a non-governmental organization operating in Mozambique seeks to document. The paper will therefore argue that modernity is real and that it shows its reality in the way in which particular social conditions and categories are done, i.e. through meanings, methods, motives and the management of the social relationship which they bring forth.
其他摘要：According to the philosopher Stephen Toulmin there is a standard account of modernity which gives primacy to the written over the oral, the universal over the particular, the general over the local and the timeless over the timely. This paper draws from Toulmin to argue that accounts of modernity in Africa are based on the assumptions of the standard account of modernity to deny modernity to Africa even though these assumptions inhere in actual practices as the analysis of the work of a non-governmental organization operating in Mozambique seeks to document. The paper will therefore argue that modernity is real and that it shows its reality in the way in which particular social conditions and categories are done, i.e. through meanings, methods, motives and the management of the social relationship which they bring forth.
关键词：Moçambique; Juventude; Modernidade; ONG
其他关键词：youth; modernity; NGO; Mozambique