Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.
- ISBN10 0813573505
- ISBN13 9780813573502
- Publish Date 5 May 2017 (first published 1 May 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English