Well-faring towards Uncertain Futures

A Comparative Perspective on Youth in Marginalized Positions

in Anthropology in Action
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Susanne Højlund Aarhus University etnosh@hum.au.dk

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Lotte Meinert Aarhus University etnolm@hum.au.dk

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Martin Demant Frederiksen Aarhus University etnmdf@hum.au.dk

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Anne Line Dalsgaard Aarhus University a.l.dalsgaard@hum.au.dk

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The article explores how societal contexts create different possibilities for faring well towards the future for young marginalized people. Based on a comparative project including ethnographies from Brazil, Uganda, Georgia and Denmark the authors discuss well-faring as a time-oriented process based on individual as well as societal conditions. The article argues that in order to understand well-faring it is important to analyse how visions and strategies for the future are shaped in relation to local circumstances. Whether it is possible to envision the future as hopeless or hopeful, as concrete or abstract or as dependent on family or state is a ma er of context. Well-faring is thus neither an individual nor a state project but must be analysed in a double perspective as an interplay between the two.

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