Out of war : violence, trauma, and the political imagination in Sierra Leone /

Out of war : violence, trauma, and the political imagination in Sierra Leone /

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Author / Creator:	Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Description:	xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Civil War (Sierra Leone : 1991-2002) War -- Psychological aspects. War victims -- Sierra Leone -- Psychological aspects. War victims -- Social aspects -- Sierra Leone. War -- Psychological aspects. Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002. Sierra Leone. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11711588

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ISBN:	9780520294370 0520294378 9780520294387 0520294386
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Out of War draws on author Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war, the legacy of which is experienced in both physical and psychological ways. Ferme examines the relationship among violence, temporality, trauma, and forms of knowledge. She also puts an emphasis on "war times"--The different qualities of temporality. She considers the persistence of pre-colonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time as collective anxieties (or "chronotopes"). Above and beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of techniques of farming and hunting knowledge, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and of forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- Out of war. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520967526
Standard no.:	40028430805 99978032611

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Summary:	Out of War draws on Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological aftereffects of the harms of Sierra Leone's civil war. Ferme analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on "war times"--the different qualities of temporality arising from war. She considers the persistence of precolonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time collective anxieties linked to particular phases of the conflict (or "chronotopes"). Beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of farming and hunting techniques, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.
Physical Description:	xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780520294370 0520294378 9780520294387 0520294386