Spaces, Times, and Critical Moments: A Relational Time–Space Analysis of the Impacts of AIDS on Rural Youth in Malawi and Lesotho

Ansell, Nicola; Blerk, Lorraine van; Hajdú, Flóra; Robson, Elsbeth

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“…They argue that time scarcity may have particularly negative outcomes for the health of people who are both time and income poor. Although a significant body of work discusses timespace and geographies of temporality in a range of contexts (Massey, 2005;May and Thrift, 2001), few studies to date have examined the temporalities of young people's everyday lives (for exceptions, see Ansell et al, 2011;Kullman and Palludan, 2011;Robson, 2004). By analysing the time-space practices of sibling caregiving, this paper responds to Horton and Kraftl's (2006, p. 87) call to explore the mundane, everyday events, 'happenings' and ongoing practices in young people's lives in order to ''talk back'' to wider theorisations of ''performance, performativity, everydayness and practice''.…”

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Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda

Evans

2012

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a b s t r a c tThis paper investigates the time-space practices of young people caring for their siblings in youthheaded households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. Based on qualitative exploratory research with young people heading households, their siblings, NGO workers and community members, the article develops the notion of sibling 'caringscapes' to analyse young people's everyday practices and caring pathways through time and space. Participatory time-use data reveals that older siblings of both genders regularly undertake substantial caring tasks at the very high end of the caregiving continuum. Drawing on rhythmanalysis, the paper explores how young people negotiate emotional geographies and temporalities of caring. The competing rhythms of bodies, schooling, work and seasonal agricultural production can result in 'arrhythmia' and time scarcity, which has detrimental effects on young people's health, education, future employment prospects and mobility. Young people's lifecourse transitions are shaped to a large extent by their caring responsibilities, resulting in some young people remaining in a liminal position for considerable periods, unable to make 'successful' transitions to adulthood. Despite structural constraints, however, young people are able to exercise some autonomy over their caring pathways and lifecourse transitions. The research sheds light on the ways that individuals embody the practices, routines and rhythms of everyday life and exercise agency within highly restricted broader landscapes of care.

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Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda

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2012

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“…Similarly, migration research often presents time as a succession of instants or threads that run horizontally between successive points, so that the possibility of transition or movement of time remains underdeveloped in its conceptualisations (Cwerner, 2001;Griffiths et al, 2013). The result is that the complex temporal dimensions of migrant lives can sometimes appear purely objective in ways that underplay the significance of changing rhythms, times and transitions (Ansell et al, 2011;Hörschelmann, 2011).…”

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Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea

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2015

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“…For many young people, their insecure life paths begin at an early age with the break-up of families either due to the death, which is particularly high in Zambia due to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, or separation/divorce of parents. As has been shown in a Zambian context (Ansell et al, 2011;Day and Evans, 2015;Locke and te Lintelo, 2012) and elsewhere in subSaharan Africa (Langevang, 2008b), these are vital events that come to have a significant impact on young people's housing, educational and consequently employment trajectories through having to move household and/or house and being unable to pay school fees. Getting married, and for some the subsequent untimely death of their spouse, affects where young people live and their income-generating activities.…”

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Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

2015

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Most research on issues of (in)security has tended to have a military/safety angle and focus on global/national scales linked to spectacular events. This paper addresses the overlooked insecurity realities of urban dwellers in the global South through a focus on more persistent and enduring forms of employment insecurities among young people. Building on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in a low-income settlement in Lusaka, Zambia, we explore how young people perceive their employment situation and examine the practices they engage in when seeking ways of making a living. Through analysing their views and experiences we show how employment insecurity is influenced by processes operating at the body, local, national and global scales, and how employment insecurity is closely interconnected with insecurity in other domains of young people's lives including the household, housing and education. Although the youth unemployment situation is often viewed as a serious threat to human security, we show how the lack of stable employment in itself is a manifestation of insecurity.

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Spaces, Times, and Critical Moments: A Relational Time–Space Analysis of the Impacts of AIDS on Rural Youth in Malawi and Lesotho

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Cited by 34 publications

References 49 publications

Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda

Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda

Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea

Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

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