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War and Embodied Memory - Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,935
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War and Embodied Memory - Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New Ed): Maria Berghs

War and Embodied Memory - Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New Ed)

Maria Berghs

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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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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2012
First published: December 2012
Authors: Maria Berghs
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-4210-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
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LSN: 1-4094-4210-1
Barcode: 9781409442103

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