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OverviewLife 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Abby HardgrovePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9780813573489ISBN 10: 0813573483 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 05 May 2017 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms 1 Introduction 2 A History of Violence 3 Reciprocity, Respect, and Becoming “Established” 4 Street Youth: Life on the Periphery 5 Life in Armed Groups 6 Life after Guns: Reintegration as Social Process 7 Conclusion: On Dominance and Discourse References IndexReviews<i>Life after Guns</i>is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts. --Mats Utas editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks Hardgrove's careful ethnography of post-war Liberia succeeds at one of anthropology's core missions: she undermines the stereotypes and easy answers standing in the way of true understanding and meaningful engagement. --Danny Hoffman author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia -Life after Guns is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts.---Mats Utas -editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks - -Hardgrove's careful ethnography of post-war Liberia succeeds at one of anthropology's core missions: she undermines the stereotypes and easy answers standing in the way of true understanding and meaningful engagement.- --Danny Hoffman -author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia - Life after Guns is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts. --Mats Utas editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks Life after Gunsis a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts. --Mats Utas editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks Hardgrove's careful ethnography of post-war Liberia succeeds at one of anthropology's core missions: she undermines the stereotypes and easy answers standing in the way of true understanding and meaningful engagement. --Danny Hoffman author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Life after Guns is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts. --Mats Utas editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks Author InformationABBY HARDGROVE teaches at Kipp Central City Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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