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

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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Autore principale: Hardgrove, Abby V. (Abby Virginia), 1983- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
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Sommario:
  • 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.