Life After Guns: Reciprocity And Respect Among Young Men In Liberia (rutgers Series In Childhood Studies)
by Abby Hardgrove /
2017 / English / PDF
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Life After Guns
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.
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.
