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Book SynopsisTrade 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 ContentsList 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
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