Title Life after guns : reciprocity and respect among young men in Liberia / Abby Hardgrove

Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series The Rutgers series in childhood studies Rutgers series in childhood studies. Contents Introduction -- A history of violence -- Reciprocity, respect, and becoming "established" -- Street youth: life on the periphery -- Life in armed groups -- Life after guns: reintegration as social process -- Conclusion: on dominance and discourse Summary 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. Abby Hardgrove focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood Analysis child, children, childhood, childhood studies, Liberia, child soldiers, civil war, war, violence, war culture, gun, guns, bullets, fighting, armed conflict, missile, combat, ground troops, troops, military Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Print version record Subject Young men -- Liberia -- Social conditions -- 21st century Child soldiers -- Liberia Veteran reintegration -- Liberia SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Child soldiers Politics and government Veteran reintegration Young men -- Social conditions Bürgerkrieg Jugend Soldat Integration SUBJECT Liberia -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076466 Subject Liberia Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813573496 0813573491 9780813573502 0813573505 9780813573489 0813573483

Other Titles Life after guns (Rutgers University Press)

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