The World on the Streets: Global Gangster Imaginaries and Marginal African Youth

Description

In this Africa Research Group event, co-hosted with the Urban Violence Research Network, Professor Ibrahim Abdullah and Dr Dariusz Dziewanski discuss their research with marginalised urban youth in Sierra Leone and South Africa respectively. In conversation with Dr Kieran Mitton, they explore the intersection of the global and the local – the ‘glocal’ – and the ways in which street gangs adopt and adapt global ‘street culture’, as expressed in popular music and gangster iconography, to their own circumstances.

As part of Africa Week, the session seeks to situate this discussion within the broader theme of ‘global blackness’, exploring how this notion may be articulated in expressions of resistance and rebellion on the streets, whilst at the same time, acknowledging the limitations that a global lens may have when accounting for the specifics of local contexts.

Period	22 Oct 2020
Event type	Other