Childhood Deployed : Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
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 an...
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NYU Press
2014
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