Life After Guns - Reciprocity and Respect Among Young Men in Liberia

Informationen zum Autor Hardgrove, Abby Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms  1          Introduction2          A History of Violence3          Reciprocity, Respect, and Becoming “Established”4          Street Youth: Life on the Periphery5          Life in Armed Groups6          Life after Guns: Reintegration as Social Process7          Conclusion: On Dominance and Discourse  ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Abby Hardgrove, Abby V. Hardgrove
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780813573472
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7347-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology