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Record Nr.

UNISA996449441003316

Autore

Hardgrove Abby V (Abby Virginia), <1983->

Titolo

Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia / / Abby Hardgrove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8135-7349-1

0-8135-7350-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages)

Collana

The Rutgers series in childhood studies

Disciplina

305.2421096662

Soggetti

Veteran reintegration - Liberia

Child soldiers - Liberia

Young men - Liberia - Social conditions - 21st century

Electronic books.

Liberia Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A history of violence -- Reciprocity, respect, and becoming "established" -- Street youth: life on the periphery -- Life in armed groups -- Life after guns: reintegration as social process -- Conclusion: on dominance and discourse.

Sommario/riassunto

Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.