War and embodied memory: becoming disabled in Sierra Leone
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1. Verfasser: Berghs, Maria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub. Co. 2012
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-1047
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Setting the scene: locating disability in Sierra Leone -- Intersections between anthropology, disability, development and conflict -- A general and socio-historical analysis of impairment and disability -- The political background of the creation of disability -- Rebuilding and rehabilitating the nation state: creating national memory and disabled subjectivity? -- Rebuilding the social world -- Managing life as an individual? -- Disability mainstreaming and social activism -- Reparations, reintegration and peace -- Looking to the future
This book describes how an amputee and war-wounded community was created after a decade long conflict (1991-2002) in Sierra Leone. Beginning with a general socio-cultural and historical analysis of what is understood by impairment and disability, it also explains how disability was politically created both during the conflict and post-conflict, as violence became part of the everyday. Despite participating in the neoliberal rebuilding of the nation state, ex-combatants and the security of the nation were the government?s main priorities, not amputee and war-wounded people
Beschreibung:xi, 258 pages
ISBN:9781409442110
140944211X
1409442101
9781409442103

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