{"product_id":"life-after-guns-reciprocity-and-respect-among-young-men-in-liberia-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813573472","title":"Life after Guns Reciprocity and Respect among","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hardgrove's careful ethnography of post-war Liberia succeeds at one of anthropology's core missions: she undermines the stereotypes and easy answers standing in the way of true understanding and meaningful engagement.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Danny Hoffman * author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLife after Guns\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts.\" -- Mats Utas * editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1          Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2          A History of Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3          Reciprocity, Respect, and Becoming “Established”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4          Street Youth: Life on the Periphery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5          Life in Armed Groups\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6          Life after Guns: Reintegration as Social Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7          Conclusion: On Dominance and Discourse\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003eIndex","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405788291415,"sku":"9780813573472","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813573472.jpg?v=1730493621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-after-guns-reciprocity-and-respect-among-young-men-in-liberia-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813573472","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}