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1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index. |
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ProQuest ebrary platform, viewed August 8, 2016). |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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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. |
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English. |
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Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone.
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Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Reintegration.
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Children and war -- Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002.
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Enfants soldats -- Sierra Leone.
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Enfants et guerre -- Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone -- Histoire -- 1991-2002 (Guerre civile)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Child soldiers
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Children and war
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Sierra Leone https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgCPdTtkJj9bqdWtyM773
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Abrüstung
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Jugend
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Jugendschutz
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Kind
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Konflikt
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Soldat
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Soziale Integration
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Auswirkung
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Kinderschutz
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Repatriierung
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Reintegration
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Demobilmachung
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Sierra Leonean Civil War (Sierra Leone : 1991-2002) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpYTXgMX9XGVt9VK |
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1991 - 2002
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shepler, Susan. Childhood Deployed. New York : NYU Press, 2014 9780814724965 9780814770252 (DLC) 2014002554 (OCoLC)863200889 |
| ISBN |
9780814760192 (electronic bk.) |
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0814760198 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814760925 (ebk) |
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0814760929 (ebk) |
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9780814724965 (hardback) |
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0814724965 (hardback) |
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9780814770252 (paper) |
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0814770258 (paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.18574/9780814760192 doi |
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AU@ 000055219901 |
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AU@ 000062105824 |
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DEBSZ 431687536 |
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DEBSZ 456562893 |
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DEBSZ 493144056 |
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NZ1 16046639 |
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AU@ 000073147177 |
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