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Out of War
- Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone
Engelsk Paperback
Out of War
- Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780520294387
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520294386
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Udg. Dato:
10 aug 2018
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
149mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
10 aug 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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