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.
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.
Maria Berghs is a Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of York, UK.
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Contents: Part I: Setting the scene: locating disability in Sierra Leone Intersections between anthropology, disability, development and conflict A general and socio-cultural analysis of impairment and disability The political background of the creation of disability. Part II: 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 Appendix Bibliography Index.
Contents: Part I: Setting the scene: locating disability in Sierra Leone Intersections between anthropology, disability, development and conflict A general and socio-cultural analysis of impairment and disability The political background of the creation of disability. Part II: 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 Appendix Bibliography Index.
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