Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia / / Abby Hardgrove.

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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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, 2017.
©2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (177 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A history of violence
  • Reciprocity, respect, and becoming "established"
  • Street youth: life on the periphery
  • Life in armed groups
  • Life after guns: reintegration as social process
  • Conclusion: on dominance and discourse.