War and Embodied Memory - Couverture souple

Berghs, Maria

 
9781138247192: War and Embodied Memory

Synopsis

This book describes how an amputee and war-wounded community was created after a decade long conflict (1991-2002) in Sierra Leone. Beginning with a general socio-cultural and historical analysis of what is understood by impairment and disability, it also explains how disability was politically created both during the conflict and post-conflict, as violence became part of the everyday. Despite participating in the neoliberal rebuilding of the nation state, ex-combatants and the security of the nation were the government's main priorities, not amputee and war-wounded people.

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À propos de l?auteur

Maria Berghs is a Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of York, UK.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781409442103: War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1409442101 ISBN 13 :  9781409442103
Editeur : Routledge, 2012
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