Life After Guns: Reciprocity and Respect Among Young Men in Liberia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813573472)

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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Author: Abby Hardgrove
ISBN-10: 0813573475
ISBN-13: 9780813573472
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2017
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.72h x 4.98w x 0.43d