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

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

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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. Abby Hardgrove focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardgrove, Abby V. (Abby Virginia), 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Integration
Soldat
Jugend
Bürgerkrieg
Young men > Social conditions.
Veteran reintegration.
Politics and government.
Child soldiers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Anciens combattants > Reintegration > Liberia.
Enfants soldats > Liberia.
Jeunes hommes > Liberia > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Veteran reintegration > Liberia.
Child soldiers > Liberia.
Young men > Liberia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Liberia.
Liberia > Politique et gouvernement > 1980-
Liberia > Politics and government > 1980-
Electronic books.
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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.

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