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"Ferme weaves together a careful analysis of archival writings and photos with participant observation, personal meditations, and reinterpretations of war tropes to illustrate how violence flares up in popular anxieties and then dies down, or how it continues to live on in traumas, deaths, and breakages in the social world." * African Studies Review *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
War Times and Forms of Life
1 Belatedness
Vision, Writing, and the Labor of Time
Chronotope 1: Prefiguring Shifting Alliances—The Sobel
2 Wartime Rumors
Red Cross as Rebel Cross and Other Figures of the Collective Imagination
Chronotope 2: Numbers, Examples, and Exceptions
3 Hunters, Warriors, and Their Technologies
4 Sitting on the Land
The Political and Symbolic Economy of the Chieftaincy
5 Refugees and Diasporic Publics
The Territorial State Reconfigured
6 Child Soldiers and the Contested Imaginary of Community after War
7 Forced Marriage and Sexual Enslavement
Debating Consent, Custom, and the Law at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
8 Inscriptions on the Wall
Chinese Material Traces in the Landscape
Conclusion
Surviving and Moving On—Ephemeral Returns
Notes
References

Out of War

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 10 August 2018
      ISBN-13 9780520294387
      978-0520294387
      ISBN-10 0520294386
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      Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Ferme weaves together a careful analysis of archival writings and photos with participant observation, personal meditations, and reinterpretations of war tropes to illustrate how violence flares up in popular anxieties and then dies down, or how it continues to live on in traumas, deaths, and breakages in the social world." * African Studies Review *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      War Times and Forms of Life
      1 Belatedness
      Vision, Writing, and the Labor of Time
      Chronotope 1: Prefiguring Shifting Alliances—The Sobel
      2 Wartime Rumors
      Red Cross as Rebel Cross and Other Figures of the Collective Imagination
      Chronotope 2: Numbers, Examples, and Exceptions
      3 Hunters, Warriors, and Their Technologies
      4 Sitting on the Land
      The Political and Symbolic Economy of the Chieftaincy
      5 Refugees and Diasporic Publics
      The Territorial State Reconfigured
      6 Child Soldiers and the Contested Imaginary of Community after War
      7 Forced Marriage and Sexual Enslavement
      Debating Consent, Custom, and the Law at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
      8 Inscriptions on the Wall
      Chinese Material Traces in the Landscape
      Conclusion
      Surviving and Moving On—Ephemeral Returns
      Notes
      References

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