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Childhood Deployed - Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone (Hardcover)
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Childhood Deployed - Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone (Hardcover)
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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 political process having to do with changing notions
of childhood as one of the central structures of society. For most
Westerners the tragedy of the idea of "child soldier" centers
around perceptions of lost and violated innocence. In contrast,
Shepler finds that for most Sierra Leoneans, the problem is not
lost innocence but the horror of being separated from one's family
and the resulting generational break in youth education. Further,
Shepler argues that Sierra Leonean former child soldiers find
themselves forced to strategically perform (or refuse to perform)
as the"child soldier" Western human rights initiatives expect in
order to most effectively gain access to the resources available
for their social reintegration. The strategies don't always work-in
some cases, Shepler finds, Western human rights initiatives do more
harm than good. While this volume focuses on the well-known case of
child soldiers in Sierra Leone, it speaks to the larger concerns of
childhood studies with a detailed ethnography of people struggling
over the situated meaning of the categories of childhood.It offers
an example of the cultural politics of childhood in action, in
which the very definition of childhood is at stake and an important
site of political contestation.
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