Children and Youth on the Front Line (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
Redaktion: Boyden, Jo; Berry, Joanna De

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people, undermines thousands of others psychologically and deprives many of the economic, educational, health and social opportunities which most of us consider essential for children's effective growth and well being.

Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young people's own accounts, this volume provides insights into children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head households or are separated from their families, displaced children and young former combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed circumstances following the cessation of conflict. In this sense, the volume bears witness to the grim effects of warfare and displacement on the young.

Nevertheless, despite the abundant evidence of suffering, it maintains that children are not the passive victims of conflict but engage actively with the conditions of war, an outlook that challenges orthodox research perspectives that rely heavily on medicalized notions of 'victim' and 'trauma.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782381891
• Artikelnr.: 40805958

Autorenporträt

Jo Boyden is a senior research officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry
PART I: THE CONTECTS OF WAR
Chapter 1. Separated Children: Care and Support in Context
Gillian Mann
Chapter 2. Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war
Mozambique
Victor Igreja
PART II: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS
Chapter 3. The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in
Teso, Uganda
Joanna de Berry
Chapter 4. A Neglected Perspective: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of the
Kosovo Conflict of 1999
Aisling Swaine with Thomas Feeny
PART III: WHAT IS A CHILD?
Chapter 5. The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique
and its Implications for the Reintegration of Child Soldiers
Jessica Schafer
Chapter 6. Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's
'Female Detachment'
Harry G. West
Chapter 7. Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern
Uganda
Andrew Mawson
PART IV: CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES
Chapter 8. Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain
Truth of Memory Acts
Krisjon Rae Olson
Chapter 9. Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities in a Palestinian
Refugee Camp in Jordan
Jason Hart
PART V: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND METHODS
Chapter 10. Researching Young People's Experiences of War: Participatory
Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola
Carola Eyber and Alastair Ager
Chapter 11. Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the
Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War
Mats Utas
Chapter 12. Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in
War
Jo Boyden
Postscript
Chapter 13. 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the Work of War and
the War of Work
Pamela Reynolds
Notes on Contributors
Index