Professor Stacey Hynd
Small Group Project 2026-27
Liberating Youth: Age, Generation and Anti/Colonialism
With Maya Nguyen
This project responds to calls to take youth seriously. With a comparative emphasis of British and French empires across the twentieth-century Global South, we trace how “youth” became a politically intelligible category through the encounter of imperial social engineering and anti-colonial mobilisation. We argue that constructing “youth” was integral to empire-building, as colonial authorities governed populations through age-focused institutions and practices to produce “good” colonial subjects.
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Stacey Hynd is Professor of African and Global History, Dean of the Doctoral College and Postgraduate Research and Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for Research on Africa at the University of Exeter. She is Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council grant 'Children of War: Evolving Local and Global Understandings of Child Soldiering in Africa Conflicts', and a REF29 History Sub-Panel Member. She has published extensively on child soldiers in Africa, children and youth in anti-colonial movements, and juvenile delinquency, as well as on gender, crime and capital punishment in colonial Africa.
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