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War and Embodied Memory - Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New Ed)
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War and Embodied Memory - Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New Ed)
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How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or
'disabled' person? 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. In order to survive, people had to
form partnerships with NGOs and participate in new discourses and
practices around disability and rights, thus accessing identities
of 'disabled' or 'persons with disabilities'. NGOs, charities and
religious organisations that understood impairment and disability
were most successful at aiding this community of people. However,
since discourse and practice on disability were mainly
bureaucratic, top-down, and not democratic about mainstreaming
disability, neoliberal organisations and INGOs have caused a new
colonisation of consciousness, and amputee and war-wounded people
have had to become skilled in negotiating these new forms of
subjectivities to survive.
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