ILCAA Joint Research Project

Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice (jrp000300)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2024–March, 2027

This project is the second stage of ethnographic research intended to explore how African youths are endeavoring to build their careers while navigating their surrounding reality and striving to implement their future plans in African countries where growth, tourism, ICT, and higher education are all advancing. How do youths from a variety of social backgrounds (classes, refugee statuses, genders, etc.) bring their imagination and creativity to bear in East African society, where they encounter political corruption, prolonged governance, domestic wealth disparities, civil conflict, postwar social restructuring, and patriarchal social norms? The research will focus on their performance using their bodies and tools such as ICT, as well as their practical skills and strategies.

Members

Coordinator

• Wakana SHIINO

ILCAA Staff

Joint Researchers

• Soichiro SHIRAISHI (Co-Coordinator)
• Keiya HANABUCHI
• Midori DAIMON
• Takuya HAGIWARA
• Eri HASHIMOTO
• Isao MURAHASHI
• Yukiko KONDO
• Takuma OTANI
• Ian Karusigarira
• Georgina Seera
• Kithinji Laban Kinyua
• Rebecca Babirye
• Constance Mudondo
• Enos Kitambo
• Kassim Mwanika

Outputs

Meetings

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Fri 14 Mar 2025 13:30–17:30
• Venue: 405, Online meeting
• Language: English

• Presentations about the ‘hustle’ as a concept from each field.

  Chair: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)

  1) Keiya HANABUCHI (Hokkaido Medical Univ/ Joint researcher)

  2) Takuma OTANI (Ritsumeikan Univ/ Joint researcher)

  3) Enos Kitambo (Gulu Univ/ Joint researcher)

  4) Yukiko KONDO (Ehime Univ/ Joint researcher)

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 11 Jan 2025 14:00–18:00
• Venue: 405, Online meeting
• Language: English

• Presentations about the ‘hustle’ as a concept from each field.

  Chair: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)

  1) Eri HASHIMOTO (Rikkyo Univ/ Joint Researcher)

  2) Rebecca Babirye (Tokyo Christian Univ/ Joint Researcher)

  3) Constance Mudondo (Makerere Univ/ Joint Researcher)

  4) Midori Daimon (Kyoto Univ/ Joint Researcher)

ILCAA Symposium ‘Situated Choices, Student Identities and Agencies for University Education in Uganda’／The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 7 Dec 2024, Sun 8 Dec 2024 10:00–17:00
• Venue: 303
• Language: English

• For details, please see here.

  Poster

The 2nd meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 29 Sep 2024 13:00–18:00
• Venue: 302, Online meeting
• Language: English

• 1) Project Communication

  2) Presentations and Discussions about ‘hustle’ as a concept

  · Takuya HAGIWARA (Toyo Univ./ Joint Researcher)

  · Isao MURAHASHI (Univ of Shizuoka / Joint Researcher)

  · Kithinji Laban Kinyua (Sophia Univ. /Joint Researcher)

  · Soichiro SHIRAISHI (Hirosaki Univ/ Joint Researcher)

  · Enos Kitambo (Gulu Univ./ Joint Researcher)

The 1st meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 27 Apr 2024 14:00–18:00
• Venue: 302, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• １. Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)

  ２. All members

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