Child soldiers : Sierra Leone's revolutionary united front /
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| Author / Creator: | Denov, Myriam S. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xi, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050416 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction: Child soldiers, iconography and the (il)logic of extremes
- Definitions and ambiguities: Defining 'child soldiers'
- (Mis)understanding militarized children: Portrayals and representations
- The making and unmaking of child soldiers
- Overview of the book
- 1. Children's involvement in war: The quandary of structure and agency
- The contemporary reality of child soldiers
- Child soldiers and structural forces
- Child soldiers and agency
- Child soldiers and the quandary of structure and agency
- 2. Recipe for rebellion: Civil war in Sierra Leone
- Understanding war in Sierra Leone
- The emergence of the Revolutionary United Front
- Tracing war (1991-2002) and the long path to peace
- 3. Negotiating power: Research on and by child soldiers
- On power, sensitive research and a participatory approach
- Participant recruitment, data collection and analysis
- Assessing a participatory approach
- 4. 'Becoming RUF': The making of a child soldier
- Pathway into violence and armed conflict
- Reshaping reality and 'becoming RUF': Solidarity, role allocation and rewards
- Understanding the RUF militarization process: Constructing a culture of violence
- 5. 'Being RUF': Victimization, participation and resistance
- Experiences of violence and armed conflict
- 'Being RUF': Identity construction in the culture of violence
- 6. 'Put dey gon don': The unmaking of a child soldier
- Pathways out of violence and armed conflict
- Reshaping reality and 'becoming a Civilian': Demilitarization and the process of unmaking
- 7. New battlefields
- Structure and agency in the making and unmaking of child soldiers
- Ambiguity, sweet sorrow and political action: The continued process of unmaking in post-conflict Sierra Leone
- Looking ahead: The needs of former child soldiers and the integration of structure and agency
- References
- Index
