Out of war : violence, trauma, and the political imagination in Sierra Leone

著者

    • Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita)

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Out of war : violence, trauma, and the political imagination in Sierra Leone

Mariane C. Ferme

University of California Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-305) and index

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内容説明

Out of War draws on the author's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war whose legacy is experienced in both physical and psychological ways. The author examines the relationship among violence, temporality, trauma, and forms of knowledge. She also puts an emphasis on "war times"-on the different qualities of temporality. Questions explored are the persistence of pre-colonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time (or "chronotopes") collective anxieties. Above and beyond the expected traumas of war, the author explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of techniques of farming and hunting knowledge, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas, and of forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, the ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.

目次

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 War Times and Forms of Life 1 Belatedness 39 Vision, Writing, and the Labor of Time Chronotope 1: Prefiguring Shifting Alliances-The Sobel 69 2 Wartime Rumors 74 Red Cross as Rebel Cross and Other Figures of the Collective Imagination Chronotope 2: Numbers, Examples, and Exceptions 98 3 Hunters, Warriors, and Their Technologies 110 4 Sitting on the Land 147 The Political and Symbolic Economy of the Chieftaincy 5 Refugees and Diasporic Publics 171 The Territorial State Reconfigured 6 Child Soldiers and the Contested Imaginary of Community after War 198 7 Forced Marriage and Sexual Enslavement 218 Debating Consent, Custom, and the Law at the Special Court for Sierra Leone 8 Inscriptions on the Wall 237 Chinese Material Traces in the Landscape Conclusion 256 Surviving and Moving On-Ephemeral Returns Notes 267 References 283

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