Cargando…
Childhood Deployed : Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone /
"Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child sold...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_31004 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905043257.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 140515s2014 nyu o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780814760192 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780814724965 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)881510594 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Shepler, Susan, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Childhood Deployed : |b Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone / |c Susan Shepler. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b New York University Press, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2014] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource: |b illustrations, map | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Youth in Sierre Leone -- Child Protection Deployed -- Learning "Child Soldier" across Contexts -- Informal Reintergrators, Communities, and NGOs -- Dinstinctions in the Population of "Child Soldiers": RUF and CDF, Boys and Girls. | |
| 520 | |a "Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a political process having to do with changing notions of childhood as one of the central structures of society. For most Westerners the tragedy of the idea of "child soldier" centers around perceptions of lost and violated innocence. In contrast, Shepler finds that for most Sierra Leoneans, the problem is not lost innocence but the horror of being separated from one's family and the resulting generational break in youth education. Further, Shepler argues that Sierra Leonean former child soldiers find themselves forced to strategically perform (or refuse to perform) as the"child soldier" Western human rights initiatives expect in order to most effectively gain access to the resources available for their social reintegration. The strategies don't always work--in some cases, Shepler finds, Western human rights initiatives do more harm than good. While this volume focuses on the well-known case of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, it speaks to the larger concerns of childhood studies with a detailed ethnography of people struggling over the situated meaning of the categories of childhood. It offers an example of the cultural politics of childhood in action, in which the very definition of childhood is at stake and an important site of political contestation"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Children and war. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00855242 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Child soldiers. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00854677 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Anthropology |x Cultural. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Social Services & Welfare. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Social Security. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Enfants et guerre |z Sierra Leone. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Enfants soldats |z Sierra Leone. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Children and war |z Sierra Leone. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Child soldiers |z Sierra Leone |x Reintegration. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Child soldiers |z Sierra Leone. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Sierra Leone. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01210248 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Sierra Leone |x Histoire |y 1991-2002 (Guerre civile) | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Sierra Leone |x History |y Civil War, 1991-2002. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/31004/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 Political Science and Policy Studies | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 African Studies | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 Complete | ||