Children and Youth on the Front Line : : Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement /

Children and Youth on the Front Line : : Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement / / ed. by Joanna de Berry, Jo Boyden.

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ager, Alastair,
Berry, Joanna de,
Boyden, Jo,
Eyber, Carola,
Feeny, Thomas,
Hart, Jason,
Igreja, Victor,
Mann, Gillian,
Mawson, Andrew,
Olson, Krisjon Rae,
Reynolds, Pamela,
Schafer, Jessica,
Swaine, Aisling,
Utas, Mats,
West, Harry G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Berry, Joanna de,
Boyden, Jo,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Forced Migration ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Contexts of War
  • 1 Separated Children CARE AND SUPPORT IN CONTEXT
  • 2 Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war Mozambique
  • Part II: Vulnerability and Resilience among Adolescent Girls
  • 3 The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, Uganda
  • 4 A Neglected Perspective ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ EXPERIENCES OF THE KOSOVO CONFLICT OF 1999
  • Part III: What is a Child?
  • 5 The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Reintegration of Child Soldiers
  • 6 Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO’s ‘Female Detachment’
  • 7 Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern Uganda
  • Part IV Children’s Narratives
  • 8 Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts
  • 9 Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children’s Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan
  • Part V: Research Methodology and Methods
  • 10 Researching Young People’s Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola
  • 11 Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War
  • 12 Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in War
  • Postscript
  • 13 ‘Where Wings Take Dream’: on Children in the Work of War and the War of Work
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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