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Youth, sex and the city
| Third-party funded project |
| Project title |
Youth, sex and the city |
| Principal Investigator(s) |
Obrist van Eeuwijk, Brigit
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| Project Members |
Sambaiga, Richard
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| Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Medizinethnologie (Obrist),
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) / Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH),
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) / Medical Anthropology (Obrist) |
| Project Website |
http://www.socialresilience.ch/reproductive-resilience/tanzania/ |
| Project start |
01.03.2010 |
| Probable end |
28.02.2013 |
| Status |
Completed |
| Abstract |
Young people constitute the majority of African societies, and they are at the center of many societal interactions and transformations. Most young Africans will soon be living in urban areas and thus be confronted with complex shifting social dynamics and multiple challenges of urban spaces. A key challenge - from the point of view of development experts and politicians – will be risks related to the sexual and reproductive health of young Africans. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest teenage pregnancy rate and is more heavily affected by HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world. Promoting the sexual and reproductive health of African youth, and especially of young African women, has moved to the top of the international development agenda. While many international and national organizations target young Africans with their interventions, surprisingly little is known about how young people live their sexuality, particularly in rapidly changing urban contexts. This PhD project is based on the assumption that youth actively and even creatively engage with urban realities. Focusing on a small but rapidly growing district capital in Southern Tanzania called Mtwara, it explores young people’s city life, paying particular attention to representations of their bodies and sexuality, for instance in gestures, postures, dress, song and dance and also in narratives by and about youngsters. Using their own rather than experts’ frames of reference, the study examines what dimensions of urban sexuality youth experience as risks, whether this experience is gendered and whether young women and men develop ways of anticipating, avoiding or overcoming and thus building resilience to these risks. The study will concentrate on young people in adolescence (aged 15-19 years) and employs a mixed methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods such as semi-structured interviews, in-depth interviews, observation and participation. |
| Keywords |
youth, urban health, pregnancy |
| Financed by |
Foundations and Associations
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