Life after guns : reciprocity and respect among young men in Liberia
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Life after guns : reciprocity and respect among young men in Liberia
（The Rutgers series in childhood studies）
Rutgers University Press, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-155) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 A History of Violence
3 Reciprocity, Respect, and Becoming "Established"
4 Street Youth: Life on the Periphery
5 Life in Armed Groups
6 Life after Guns: Reintegration as Social Process
7 Conclusion: On Dominance and Discourse
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Index
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