LEADER 04493nam 22007455 450 001 9910846985103321 005 20240611141145.0 010 $a0-8147-6092-9 010 $a0-8147-6019-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814760192 035 $a(CKB)3710000000111548 035 $a(EBL)1690635 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001193731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11949151 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11136868 035 $a(PQKB)11640669 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1690635 035 $a(OCoLC)881510594 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34275 035 $a(DE-B1597)548075 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814760192 035 $a(OCoLC)879948896 035 $a(DE-B1597)679305 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814760925 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000111548 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChildhood Deployed $eRemaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone /$fSusan Shepler 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-7025-8 311 $a0-8147-2496-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tFigures and Tables --$tAcronyms --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Youth in Sierra Leone --$t2. Child Protection Deployed --$t3. Learning ?Child Soldier? across Contexts --$t4. Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs --$t5. Distinctions in the Population of ?Child Soldiers? --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aChildhoodDeployed examinesthe reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteenmonths of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years offollow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnectbetween the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual livedexperiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends thatthe reintegration of former child soldiers is a political process havingto do with changing notions of childhood as one of the central structures ofsociety.Formost Westerners the tragedy of the idea of ?child soldier? centersaround perceptions of lost and violated innocence. In contrast, Shepler findsthat for most Sierra Leoneans, the problem is not lost innocence but the horrorof being separated from one?s family and the resulting generational break inyouth education. Further, Shepler argues that Sierra Leonean former childsoldiers find themselves forced to strategically perform (or refuse to perform)as the?child soldier? Western human rights initiatives expect in order tomost effectively gain access to the resources available for their socialreintegration. The strategies don?t always work?in some cases, Shepler finds,Western human rights initiatives do more harm than good.Whilethis volume focuses on the well-known case of child soldiers in Sierra Leone,it speaks to the larger concerns of childhood studies with a detailedethnography of people struggling over the situated meaning of the categories ofchildhood.It offers an example of thecultural politics of childhood in action, in which the very definition ofchildhood is at stake and an important site of political contestation. 606 $aChildren and war$zSierra Leone 606 $aChild soldiers$zSierra Leone$xReintegration 606 $aChild soldiers$zSierra Leone 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / Military / Other$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural$2bisacsh 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002 615 0$aChildren and war 615 0$aChild soldiers$xReintegration. 615 0$aChild soldiers 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General. 615 7$aHISTORY / Military / Other. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. 676 $a362.77 686 $aSOC002010$aHIS027130$aPOL000000$2bisacsh 700 $aShepler$b Susan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910846985103321 996 $aChildhood Deployed$94128189 997 $aUNINA