Child soldiers : Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /

Child soldiers : Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Denov, Myriam S.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Revolutionary United Front -- Biography. Revolutionary United Front. Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Interviews. Life change events -- Sierra Leone -- Case studies. Self-perception -- Sierra Leone -- Case studies. Children and war -- Case studies. Child soldiers. Children and war. Life change events. Military participation -- Juvenile. Self-perception. Social conditions Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives. Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Juvenile. Sierra Leone -- Biography. Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961- Sierra Leone. Biographies. Case studies. History. Interviews. Personal narratives.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11824243

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ISBN:	9780511680007 0511680007 9780511677502 0511677502 9780511681981 0511681984 9780511686474 0511686471 9780511682902 0511682905 9780511676475 0511676476 9780511683961 0511683960 9780521872249 0521872243 9780521693219 0521693217
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse"--Provided by publisher
Other form:	Print version: Denov, Myriam S. Child soldiers. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521872249
Standard no.:	9786612536298

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Child soldiers, iconography, and the (il)logic of extremes
Children's involvement in war: the quandary of structure and agency
Recipe for rebellion: civil war in Sierra Leone
Negotiating power: research on and by child soldiers
"Becoming RUF": the making of a child soldier
"Being RUF": victimization, participation, and resistance
"Put dey gon don": the unmaking of a child soldier
New battlefields.