Life After Guns
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780813573489
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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