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Claiming place: the production of young men's street meeting places in accra, ghana

Thilde LangevangDepartment of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK‐1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark, E–mail: [email protected]
Pages 227-242 | Published online: 10 Nov 2016

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Katherine V Gough, Francis Chigunta & Thilde Langevang. (2015) Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 48:2, pages 348-366.
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James Esson. (2015) Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers. Geoforum 64, pages 47-55.
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Gareth A. Jones. (2011) Children and development III. Progress in Development Studies 11:2, pages 145-149.
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Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Mac Mashiri, Sipho Dube & Goodhope Maponya. (2010) ‘Youthscapes’ and escapes in rural Africa: Education, mobility and livelihood trajectories for young people in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of International Development 22:8, pages 1090-1101.
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Thilde Langevang. (2008) ‘We are managing!’ Uncertain paths to respectable adulthoods in Accra, Ghana. Geoforum 39:6, pages 2039-2047.
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