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OverviewIn the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In this ethnography, Luisa T. Schneider explores the intricate semantic, empirical and socio-legal dynamics of love and violence in post-conflict Sierra Leone, challenging the oversimplification of these phenomena. Schneider underscores the limitations of imposing singular interpretations on love and violence, advocating for a nuanced, phenomenological approach that reveals how state and institutional attempts to regulate violence and loving relationships without considering local lived experience and meaning-making can yield negative consequences. By analysing how love and violence are historically constituted, experienced, and (re)produced across personal, social, legal, and political levels, this book critiques the construction of violence within gendered sexual relationships by development agencies, law makers and politicians, urging them to engage with local knowledge and experience. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Luisa T. Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology )Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009533034ISBN 10: 1009533037 Pages: 267 Publication Date: 31 December 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available, will be POD This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Access, Methodology and Ethics; 2. The impact of violence on relationships; 3. Loving and living relationships in Freetown today; 4. The Spectrum of violence in relationships; 5. The language of violence; 6. Household and community mediations of violence; 7. Invoking the State-when Adults report violence in their relationships to the Police; 8. Minors before the Law-building futures, policing sex; 9. Perpetrators? The consequence of the sexual offences Act for Young Men; Conclusion; References; Index.Reviews‘In Luisa Schneider’s ground-breaking study of the dialectics and dilemmas of intimacy in postwar Sierra Leone, ‘love’ and ‘violence’ are shown to be semantically and socially ambiguous. Even when an ideal complementarity is posited between men and women, the interplay between subtle persuasion and brute force (in local parlance, ‘tongue’ versus ‘teeth’) is not only volatile and vexed but further exacerbated by the incommensurability of state laws, local customs, notions of human rights, and the diversity of individual experience.’ Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want ‘In this insightful, deeply contextual, and sensitively crafted ethnography, Luisa Schneider documents the ambiguous effects of well-intentioned and globally celebrated interventions that aimed to curb specific types of gender-based violence but resulted in new forms of violence. Schneider exposes the tragic ironies of state-centered, western-sponsored interventions based on generic, context-free ideas far from the everyday languages and realities of the people for whom they should matter most. But more significantly Love and Violence reveals missing context through often poignant analysis of the place of acceptable and unacceptable violence in abrasive, entangled relations between men and women. Schneider is attentive to everyday dynamics, household and community cohesion, the enduring effects of the civil war, as well as the unintended consequences of specific acts of legislation. It is a must-read for development and human rights professionals as well as those with an interest in the constitutive role of violence in intimate relations.’ Andrew M. Jefferson, co-editor of Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia ‘A brave, intelligent and important book based on rare and intimate ethnographic data, which should attract a wide array of scholars with research interests in gendered social relations, sexuality and violence. It is an equally fascinating study of how people in their everyday navigate a realm of intricate legal plurality, from the very local to the global, and where no level is sovereign nor autonomous, but commonplace clashing and at times socially collapsing. This book is an intimate, violent, demanding, troubling, yet brilliant piece of scholarly work.’ Mats Utas, co-editor of Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context 'In Luisa Schneider's ground-breaking study of the dialectics and dilemmas of intimacy in postwar Sierra Leone, 'love' and 'violence' are shown to be semantically and socially ambiguous. Even when an ideal complementarity is posited between men and women, the interplay between subtle persuasion and brute force (in local parlance, 'tongue' versus 'teeth') is not only volatile and vexed but further exacerbated by the incommensurability of state laws, local customs, notions of human rights, and the diversity of individual experience.' Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want 'In this insightful, deeply contextual, and sensitively crafted ethnography, Luisa Schneider documents the ambiguous effects of well-intentioned and globally celebrated interventions that aimed to curb specific types of gender-based violence but resulted in new forms of violence. Schneider exposes the tragic ironies of state-centered, western-sponsored interventions based on generic, context-free ideas far from the everyday languages and realities of the people for whom they should matter most. But more significantly Love and Violence reveals missing context through often poignant analysis of the place of acceptable and unacceptable violence in abrasive, entangled relations between men and women. Schneider is attentive to everyday dynamics, household and community cohesion, the enduring effects of the civil war, as well as the unintended consequences of specific acts of legislation. It is a must-read for development and human rights professionals as well as those with an interest in the constitutive role of violence in intimate relations.' Andrew M. Jefferson, co-editor of Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia 'A brave, intelligent and important book based on rare and intimate ethnographic data, which should attract a wide array of scholars with research interests in gendered social relations, sexuality and violence. It is an equally fascinating study of how people in their everyday navigate a realm of intricate legal plurality, from the very local to the global, and where no level is sovereign nor autonomous, but commonplace clashing and at times socially collapsing. This book is an intimate, violent, demanding, troubling, yet brilliant piece of scholarly work.' Mats Utas, co-editor of Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context Author InformationDr Luisa T. Schneider is a sociocultural anthropologist, specializing in intimacy, violence, and law. Schneider is Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, a published academic and public author, and advisor to policymakers and practitioners. She has conducted ethnographic research which emphasizes the importance of local knowledge for over ten years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |