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child
child soldiers
childhood
childhood studies
children
civil war
civil war aftermath
combat
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ethnographic study
ex combatants
family relations
fighting
ground troop
ground troops
gun
guns
Liberia
liberian civil war
military
missile
post conflict ethnography
post conflict society
postwar reconstruction
reintegration
resilience
social anthropology
social capital
troops
violence
war
war culture
war recovery
Product details
- ISBN 9780813573472
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2017
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Download open access ebook here.
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ABBY HARDGROVE teaches at Kipp Central City Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana.
