Susan Shepler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 184228 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Shepler |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Shepler |
| FIRMA | SHEPLER S |
| AFILIACIONES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4423-3909 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Acronyms
Youth in Sierra Leone
This chapter describes aspects of the practice of childhood in Sierra Leone—child labor, secret society initiations, child fosterage, and education and apprenticeship—that are continuous with the participation of children in armed forces. Sierra Leoneans have their own culturally specific reactions to child soldiering that are not reflected in global child rights discourse. What is disturbing to them is not a lost innocence but a separation from …
Figures and Tables
Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs
Enria, Luisa. The Politics of Work in a Post-Conflict State
Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms
Various curricular and textbook initiatives exist to aid in the national processes of coming to terms with past violence, often serving the political goals of the victors, sometimes supported by international transitional justice institutions. Sierra Leone and Liberia each experienced a devastating civil war during the 1990s and into the 2000s, and each is struggling to rebuild shattered education systems. In addition, each country has experience…
We Know Who is Eating the Ebola Money
Sierra Leonean production of knowledge about Ebola was, in large part, production of knowledge about "who ate the Ebola money." This article traces people's responses to the Ebola crisis through a number of different moments, at each point reflecting on how their concerns about how Ebola money was being spent illuminate their expectations of their state. During the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leoneans simultaneously mistrusted their politicians and lo…
Producing Ebola
Producing Ebola:Creating Knowledge In and About an Epidemic Catherine Bolten and Susan Shepler Try to remember what it was like during the fall of 2014. Ebola was always in the news, the virus was spreading and people were dying at an increasing rate in West Africa. Although there should have been ways to stop it, more and more people were falling ill. In the United States, there was near panic about the possibility of it coming here. In Septembe…
Childhood Deployed
With so many debts incurred, I hardly know where to begin
Aaa 2014
Childhood Deployed
Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a …
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
Journal Article War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone Get access War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone, by Krijn Peters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 292 pp. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 107 00419 1. Susan Shepler Susan Shepler American University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 112, Issue 448, July 2013, Pages 517–518, https://doi.o…
Effects in post-conflict West Africa of teacher training for refugee women
This article draws data from an innovative research project tracing former refugee teachers who received teacher training from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) over a 17-year-long education programme in refugee camps in Guinea (1991–2008). The research traced repatriated refugee teachers who had returned to their homes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in an effort to determine the effects of the training they received – particularly whether th…
Are ‘Child Soldiers’ In Sierra Leone A New Phenomenon
This chapter investigates the question of continuity and change in intergenerational relations and conflict in Sierra Leone. What light can be shed on the modern phenomenon of child soldiering by a historical analysis of the participation of children in war? Four eras of Sierra Leone's history the pre-colonial, early colonial, late colonial and early independence eras are examined. Although their participation has shifted in meaning and in substa…
Introduction to Special Issue
Peace begins when people find violence the worst threat of all. With this, the fears and beliefs in force wane and support for violent solutions withers as a search for creative non-aggressive solutions waxes. This isn't merely a political process. It is forged in the center of daily life. It is carried through simple conversations and philosophical debates; crafted in art and reproduced in music; relayed in folktales and honed in literature. (No…
Child labour and youth enterprise
This article focuses on the ‘bearing boys’ of Freetown, Sierra Leone to investigate the tension between child labour as an evil and child agency as a good, between post‐war reconstruction by a ‘weak state’ and people's (children's in particular) everyday creativity in the face of state failure. Freetown was one of the last safe places in the country during the civil war in Sierra Leone, and throughout the nineties people flooded into the capital.…
Youth music and politics in post-war Sierra Leone
The brutal, eleven-year long civil war in Sierra Leone has been understood by many scholarly observers as 'a crisis of youth'. The national elections of 2007 were notable for an explosion of popular music by young people directly addressing some of the central issues of the election: corruption of the ruling party and lack of opportunities for youth advancement. Though produced by youth and understood locally as youth music, the sounds were inesc…
The Rites of the Child
This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in Sierra Leone. Data are based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork throughout Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2001. Various actors, including children, their families, communities, teachers, nongovernmental organization workers, and the state, use the CRC and th…
Les filles-soldats
Si l'analyse de la guerre au Liberia et en Sierra Leone a souvent mis en exergue la crise de la jeunesse, l'analyse a plus porté sur les hommes comme victimes ou combattants. Il s'agit ici d'étudier des trajectoires de femmes engagées à un titre ou à un autre dans ces conflits et de s'interroger sur le peu d'attention que leur cas a suscité lors de la mise en œuvre des programmes de démobilisation
Childhood Deployed
"Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a…
Shadows into Light
Childhood Deployed
With so many debts incurred, I hardly know where to begin
The Rites of the Child
This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in Sierra Leone. Data are based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork throughout Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2001. Various actors, including children, their families, communities, teachers, nongovernmental organization workers, and the state, use the CRC and th…
Youth music and politics in post-war Sierra Leone
The brutal, eleven-year long civil war in Sierra Leone has been understood by many scholarly observers as 'a crisis of youth'. The national elections of 2007 were notable for an explosion of popular music by young people directly addressing some of the central issues of the election: corruption of the ruling party and lack of opportunities for youth advancement. Though produced by youth and understood locally as youth music, the sounds were inesc…
Producing Ebola
Producing Ebola:Creating Knowledge In and About an Epidemic Catherine Bolten and Susan Shepler Try to remember what it was like during the fall of 2014. Ebola was always in the news, the virus was spreading and people were dying at an increasing rate in West Africa. Although there should have been ways to stop it, more and more people were falling ill. In the United States, there was near panic about the possibility of it coming here. In Septembe…
We Know Who is Eating the Ebola Money
Sierra Leonean production of knowledge about Ebola was, in large part, production of knowledge about "who ate the Ebola money." This article traces people's responses to the Ebola crisis through a number of different moments, at each point reflecting on how their concerns about how Ebola money was being spent illuminate their expectations of their state. During the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leoneans simultaneously mistrusted their politicians and lo…
Introduction to Special Issue
Peace begins when people find violence the worst threat of all. With this, the fears and beliefs in force wane and support for violent solutions withers as a search for creative non-aggressive solutions waxes. This isn't merely a political process. It is forged in the center of daily life. It is carried through simple conversations and philosophical debates; crafted in art and reproduced in music; relayed in folktales and honed in literature. (No…
Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms
Various curricular and textbook initiatives exist to aid in the national processes of coming to terms with past violence, often serving the political goals of the victors, sometimes supported by international transitional justice institutions. Sierra Leone and Liberia each experienced a devastating civil war during the 1990s and into the 2000s, and each is struggling to rebuild shattered education systems. In addition, each country has experience…
Les filles-soldats
Si l'analyse de la guerre au Liberia et en Sierra Leone a souvent mis en exergue la crise de la jeunesse, l'analyse a plus porté sur les hommes comme victimes ou combattants. Il s'agit ici d'étudier des trajectoires de femmes engagées à un titre ou à un autre dans ces conflits et de s'interroger sur le peu d'attention que leur cas a suscité lors de la mise en œuvre des programmes de démobilisation
Child labour and youth enterprise
This article focuses on the ‘bearing boys’ of Freetown, Sierra Leone to investigate the tension between child labour as an evil and child agency as a good, between post‐war reconstruction by a ‘weak state’ and people's (children's in particular) everyday creativity in the face of state failure. Freetown was one of the last safe places in the country during the civil war in Sierra Leone, and throughout the nineties people flooded into the capital.…
Aaa 2014
Effects in post-conflict West Africa of teacher training for refugee women
This article draws data from an innovative research project tracing former refugee teachers who received teacher training from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) over a 17-year-long education programme in refugee camps in Guinea (1991–2008). The research traced repatriated refugee teachers who had returned to their homes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in an effort to determine the effects of the training they received – particularly whether th…
Les filles-soldats
Si l'analyse de la guerre au Liberia et en Sierra Leone a souvent mis en exergue la crise de la jeunesse, l'analyse a plus porté sur les hommes comme victimes ou combattants. Il s'agit ici d'étudier des trajectoires de femmes engagées à un titre ou à un autre dans ces conflits et de s'interroger sur le peu d'attention que leur cas a suscité lors de la mise en œuvre des programmes de démobilisation
The Rites of the Child
This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in Sierra Leone. Data are based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork throughout Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2001. Various actors, including children, their families, communities, teachers, nongovernmental organization workers, and the state, use the CRC and th…
Child labour and youth enterprise
This article focuses on the ‘bearing boys’ of Freetown, Sierra Leone to investigate the tension between child labour as an evil and child agency as a good, between post‐war reconstruction by a ‘weak state’ and people's (children's in particular) everyday creativity in the face of state failure. Freetown was one of the last safe places in the country during the civil war in Sierra Leone, and throughout the nineties people flooded into the capital.…
Youth music and politics in post-war Sierra Leone
The brutal, eleven-year long civil war in Sierra Leone has been understood by many scholarly observers as 'a crisis of youth'. The national elections of 2007 were notable for an explosion of popular music by young people directly addressing some of the central issues of the election: corruption of the ruling party and lack of opportunities for youth advancement. Though produced by youth and understood locally as youth music, the sounds were inesc…
Are ‘Child Soldiers’ In Sierra Leone A New Phenomenon
This chapter investigates the question of continuity and change in intergenerational relations and conflict in Sierra Leone. What light can be shed on the modern phenomenon of child soldiering by a historical analysis of the participation of children in war? Four eras of Sierra Leone's history the pre-colonial, early colonial, late colonial and early independence eras are examined. Although their participation has shifted in meaning and in substa…
Introduction to Special Issue
Peace begins when people find violence the worst threat of all. With this, the fears and beliefs in force wane and support for violent solutions withers as a search for creative non-aggressive solutions waxes. This isn't merely a political process. It is forged in the center of daily life. It is carried through simple conversations and philosophical debates; crafted in art and reproduced in music; relayed in folktales and honed in literature. (No…
Effects in post-conflict West Africa of teacher training for refugee women
This article draws data from an innovative research project tracing former refugee teachers who received teacher training from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) over a 17-year-long education programme in refugee camps in Guinea (1991–2008). The research traced repatriated refugee teachers who had returned to their homes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in an effort to determine the effects of the training they received – particularly whether th…
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
Journal Article War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone Get access War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone, by Krijn Peters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 292 pp. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 107 00419 1. Susan Shepler Susan Shepler American University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 112, Issue 448, July 2013, Pages 517–518, https://doi.o…
Childhood Deployed
Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a …
Aaa 2014
Childhood Deployed
With so many debts incurred, I hardly know where to begin
Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms
Various curricular and textbook initiatives exist to aid in the national processes of coming to terms with past violence, often serving the political goals of the victors, sometimes supported by international transitional justice institutions. Sierra Leone and Liberia each experienced a devastating civil war during the 1990s and into the 2000s, and each is struggling to rebuild shattered education systems. In addition, each country has experience…
We Know Who is Eating the Ebola Money
Sierra Leonean production of knowledge about Ebola was, in large part, production of knowledge about "who ate the Ebola money." This article traces people's responses to the Ebola crisis through a number of different moments, at each point reflecting on how their concerns about how Ebola money was being spent illuminate their expectations of their state. During the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leoneans simultaneously mistrusted their politicians and lo…
Producing Ebola
Producing Ebola:Creating Knowledge In and About an Epidemic Catherine Bolten and Susan Shepler Try to remember what it was like during the fall of 2014. Ebola was always in the news, the virus was spreading and people were dying at an increasing rate in West Africa. Although there should have been ways to stop it, more and more people were falling ill. In the United States, there was near panic about the possibility of it coming here. In Septembe…
Acronyms
Youth in Sierra Leone
This chapter describes aspects of the practice of childhood in Sierra Leone—child labor, secret society initiations, child fosterage, and education and apprenticeship—that are continuous with the participation of children in armed forces. Sierra Leoneans have their own culturally specific reactions to child soldiering that are not reflected in global child rights discourse. What is disturbing to them is not a lost innocence but a separation from …
Figures and Tables
Informal Reintegrators, Communities, and NGOs
Enria, Luisa. The Politics of Work in a Post-Conflict State
Childhood Deployed
"Childhood Deployed examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on eighteen months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, the book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Susan Shepler contends that the reintegration of former child soldiers is a…
Shadows into Light
Sierra leone (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Ethnology (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Socioeconomics (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)