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:	1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	War -- Psychological aspects. War -- Psychological aspects. Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002. Sierra Leone. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589480

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ISBN:	9780520967526 0520967526 9780520294370
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018).
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:	Print version: Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- Out of war. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520294370

Table of Contents:

Introduction : war times and forms of life
Belatedness : vision, writing, and the labor of time
Chronotope 1 : prefiguring shifting alliances-the sobel
War time rumors : Red Cross as rebel cross and other figures of the collective imagination
Chronotope 2 : numbers, examples, and exceptions
Hunters, warriors, and their technologies
Sitting on land : the political and symbolic economy of chieftancy in contemporary Sierra Leone
Refugees and diasporic publics : the territorial state reconfigured
Child soldiers and contested imaginary of community in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Forced marriage and sexual enslavement : debating consent, custom, and law at the special court for Sierra Leone
Inscriptions on the wall : Chinese material traces in Sierra Leone
Conclusion : surviving and moving on-ephemeral returns.

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

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