TY - BOOK ID - 104712245 TI - Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia PY - 2017 SN - 9780813573496 9780813573502 0813573491 0813573505 9780813573489 0813573483 9780813573472 0813573475 PB - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Veteran reintegration KW - Child soldiers KW - Young men KW - Men KW - Young adults KW - Boys KW - Boys as soldiers KW - Children as soldiers KW - Soldiers KW - Community reintegration, Veteran KW - Post-deployment reintegration KW - Reintegration, Veteran KW - Veteran-community reintegration KW - Veterans KW - Resocialization KW - Social conditions KW - Reintegration KW - Liberia KW - Politics and government KW - child, children, childhood, childhood studies, Liberia, child soldiers, civil war, war, violence, war culture, gun, guns, bullets, fighting, armed conflict, missile, combat, ground troops, troops, military. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104712245 AB - 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. ER -