Informationen zum Autor Myriam Denov is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of children and youth at risk, with an emphasis on war-affected children and juvenile justice. Klappentext Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation. Zusammenfassung Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers in Sierra Leone! Myriam Denov highlights the diverse experiences of their recruitment and initiation into armed conflict! the physical and ideological training they received! how they coped under situations of duress! and the long-term implications of their participation in war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: child soldiers, iconography and the (il)logic of extremes; 1. Children's involvement in war: the quandary of structure and agency; 2. Recipe for rebellion: civil war in Sierra Leone; 3. Negotiating power: research on and by child soldiers; 4. 'Becoming RUF': the making of a child soldier; 5. 'Being RUF': victimization, participation and resistance; 6. 'Put dey gon don': the unmaking of a child soldier; 7. New battlefields.

Autorentext
Myriam Denov is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of children and youth at risk, with an emphasis on war-affected children and juvenile justice.

Klappentext

Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Myriam Denov highlights the diverse experiences of their recruitment and initiation into armed conflict, the physical and ideological training they received, how they coped under situations of duress, and the long-term implications of their participation in war.

Inhalt

Introduction: child soldiers, iconography and the (il)logic of extremes; 1. Children's involvement in war: the quandary of structure and agency; 2. Recipe for rebellion: civil war in Sierra Leone; 3. Negotiating power: research on and by child soldiers; 4. 'Becoming RUF': the making of a child soldier; 5. 'Being RUF': victimization, participation and resistance; 6. 'Put dey gon don': the unmaking of a child soldier; 7. New battlefields.