Life after Guns Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hardgrove, Abby V. 1983- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press 2017.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (177 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813573496
9780813573502