Childhood Deployed
Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5802108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Shepler (0000-0003-4423-3909, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 223 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Childhood Deployed (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9780814724965.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4248592534 |
| Open Library | OL33989240M |
| ISBN | 9780814724965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 40 |
With so many debts incurred, I hardly know where to begin
Anthropology · Child soldiers · Children and war · Cultural · History · Military · Political science · Public policy · Reintegration · Sierra Leone · Social Science · Social Security · Social Services & Welfare
Trauma and the African Animist Imaginary in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me
Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Postwar Sierra Leone
Introduction
The TRC, the NGO and the child
Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs
Childhoods and (in)securities
Legacies of humanitarian neglect
Picturing safety and danger
Without Education You Can Never Become President’
Productive work and subjected labor
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone
Understanding Violence by Non-State Armed Groups
Post-crisis masculinities’ in Sierra Leone
Breaking Through the Legal Binary
My heart was already cooked’
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms
Exceptional (in)security
Triply silenced agents
Little people do little things
From the singular to the plural
Becoming 'brilliant
Mental health problems among children in Sierra Leone
Life after armed group involvement in Nepal
Youth, Reinventive Institutions and the Moral Politics of Future-Making in Postcolonial Africa
"Do not Disturb the Peace!" Identities, Livelihoods and the Politics of Post-War Discontent in Sierra Leone
Contested futures
Secrets from Whom
Children as a Reserve Labor Force
Risky Business
Letting the mask slip
Playing on the mother-ground
Studies in ethnomethodology
Paths toward a clearing
Greed and Grievance
War, Markets, and the Reconfiguration of West Africa's Weak States
Youth culture and rebellion
Re-Turn to Practice
Past horrors, present struggles
Returning home
Child Fosterage in West Africa
Children and fighting forces
Misanthropy Without Borders
Post-War Social Reconstruction in Mozambique
Innocents Abroad
The war machines
Youth and the Social Imagination in Africa
Child Labor and Africanist Scholarship
Central Problems in Social Theory
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Situated Learning
Memories of the Slave Trade
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Converts to Human Rights? Popular Debate About War and justice in Rural Central Sierra Leone
No Success Without Struggle
Engaging Postcolonial Cultures
Why we fight
The cultural transformation of Western education in Sierra Leone
Network building and political power in northwestern Sierra Leone, 1800-65
Secret knowledge as property and power in Kpelle society
The Changing Political System of the Temne
War-Towns in Sierra Leone
Representing Violence and "Othering" Somalia
Children and the gendered politics of globalization
The political use of Sande ideology and symbolism
Do Infants Have Religion? The Spiritual Lives of Beng Babies
Millennial Capitalism
Youth and Cultural Practice
The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology
New shapes to shift
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |