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Out of War - Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone (Hardcover)
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Out of War - Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone (Hardcover)
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Out of War draws on the author's three decades of ethnographic
engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil
war whose legacy is experienced in both physical and psychological
ways. The author examines the relationship among violence,
temporality, trauma, and forms of knowledge. She also puts an
emphasis on "war times"-on the different qualities of temporality.
Questions explored are the persistence of pre-colonial and colonial
figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the
circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time (or
"chronotopes") collective anxieties. Above and beyond the expected
traumas of war, the author explores the breaks in the
intergenerational transmission of techniques of farming and hunting
knowledge, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced
traumas, and of forgetting local knowledge. In the context of
massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions,
the ethnography traces strategies of survival and material
dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood,
where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in
neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.
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