ABSTRACT
Bourdieu made clear the complexity of capital and its relationship to power and use-value. Those theorising a range of notions of human capital attempt to frame all social actors as agentic and full of possibilities for capital, an ideology of late capitalism, regardless of considerations of gender and race. The South Sudanese young women who feature in this section are-like most of their peers-attempting to construct viable lives in social spaces not so relentlessly structured by capitals as those they see around them, as young people of colour, but importantly also as young women. Their efforts are partial and progressive, informed by the intersection of their artistic and faith practices, both of which suggest the possibility of something more.
