Childhood deployed: remaking child soldiers in Sierra Leone
"Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child sold...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a political process having to do with changing notions of childhood as one of the central structures of society.For most Westerners the tragedy of the idea of "child soldier" centers around perceptions of lost and violated innocence. In contrast, Shepler finds that for most Sierra Leoneans, the problem is not lost innocence but the horror of being separated from one's family and the resulting generational break in youth education. Further, Shepler argues that Sierra Leonean former child soldiers find themselves forced to strategically perform (or refuse to perform) as the"child soldier" Western human rights initiatives expect in order to most effectively gain access to the resources available for their social reintegration. The strategies don't always work--in some cases, Shepler finds, Western human rights initiatives do more harm than good.While this volume focuses on the well-known case of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, it speaks to the larger concerns of childhood studies with a detailed ethnography of people struggling over the situated meaning of the categories of childhood.It offers an example of the cultural politics of childhood in action, in which the very definition of childhood is at stake and an important site of political contestation"-- |
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Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Susan Shepler
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NEWYORKUNIVERSITYPRESS
New York and London
CO NTE NT S
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Acronyms ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 Youth in Sierra Leone 21
2 Child Protection Deployed 5 5
• 3 Learning Child Soldier across Contexts 81
4 Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs 101
5 Distinctions in the Population of Child Soldiers:
RUF and CDF, Boys and Girls 131
Conclusion 157
Notes 167
References 185
Index 203
About the Author 209
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