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Youth as Death

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  • Abigail H. Neely

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Since the end of apartheid, life in South Africa has been marked by an epidemic of death among the youth—people between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. First as a result of HIV/AIDS and political violence, and more recently as a result of “these diseases,” a broad group of illnesses that affect the youth, homicide and suicide, this epidemic is in part a consequence of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in South Africa. This epidemic of death can also be understood as an example of necropolitics—the failure of the postapartheid state. At the same time, as the stories in this article reveal, no one or two analytical approach(es) can fully make sense of what it means to live in a place where the youth are dying at such a high rate. Drawing inspiration from work in Black studies, and Black feminisms more specifically, and driven by the stories of those living through loss in South Africa, this article sketches what it means to live in a place where youth is defined by death.

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  • Abigail H. Neely, 2024. "Youth as Death," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 114(10), pages 2281-2296, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:114:y:2024:i:10:p:2281-2296
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2024.2374922
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