Life after Guns

Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Political Science
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Author: Abby Hardgrove ISBN: 9780813573496
Publisher: Rutgers University Press Publication: May 5, 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press Language: English
Author: Abby Hardgrove
ISBN: 9780813573496
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication: May 5, 2017
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Language: English

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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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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