Ruiters, GregoryZgambo, Timalizge2022-11-112024-05-032022-11-112024-05-032022https://hdl.handle.net/10566/12944Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis thesis explores the social and political construction of adolescent pregnancy and child marriage policy and practices in Zambia between the nation's birth in 1964 and 2018 using a social constructionist approach. This approach questions the many ways social problems are defined, labelled, framed and understood by different groups/actors. Using a multimodal research method, I combined archival materials, policy documents, parliamentary speeches, newspapers and interviews with non-state actors. The main findings show that firstly (in a broader context), Zambia is caught up in multiple spatio-temporalities: its colonial past, “Christian nation notion/ideology”, and neoliberal developmentalism.enAdolescentsChild marriageChristianityPregnancyZimbabweUniversity of the Western Cape