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All over the Buy Xanax Valium Online world, the new sociology of youth points to a growing concern about the Buy Xanax Valium Online ramifications of globalization, late modernity and general global social and economic restructuring for Buy Xanax Valium Online the lives and futures of young people. But amidst the lingering fears of the Buy Xanax Valium Online future of the young, scholars have also called for a deep reflection and Buy Xanax Valium Online rethinking of young people’s own resilience and Buy Xanax Valium Online agency in the midst of these turbulent times. This special issue of African Identities, tentatively entitled Late Modernity and Buy Xanax Valium Online Agency: Youth Cultures in Africa, seeks to reflect on the Buy Xanax Valium Online varied contours of youth responses to social change in Sub-Saharan Africa. While young people in Africa continue to Buy Xanax Valium Online face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, what are Buy Xanax Valium Online the unique ways in which they have reinvented their circumstances to Buy Xanax Valium Online keep afloat in the midst of seismic global social changes? Papers are Buy Xanax Valium Online solicited on a wide range of topics on the African youth that Buy Xanax Valium Online may unravel young people not only as victims but also as active social actors in the Buy Xanax Valium Online face of a shifting global modernity. The themes may include amongst others,

- African Youth and Globalization
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- Youth and Conflict in Africa
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Abstracts of not more than 500 words (including name, position, institutional affiliation, and email contact) may be sent to P.UGor@bham.ac.uk no Buy Xanax Valium Online later than September 30th, 2011. This special issue of African Identities will be Buy Xanax Valium Online published in the summer of 2012.

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