The Rites of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0170
Nama Orang :	Shepler, Susan






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor and Francis - Criminology and Law, 2006

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Abstrak	This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in Sierra Leone. Data are based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork throughout Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2001. Various actors, including children, their families, communities, teachers, nongovernmental organization workers, and the state, use the CRC and the Western construction of childhood as innocent and apolitical for strategic purposes. Child rights discourse and practice eases the reintegration of child excombatants by buttressing discourses of abdicated responsibility in childrens narrations of their war experiences, thereby facilitating forgiveness and acceptance. However, this model of innocent child is in conflict with an earlier model of youth as hardworking and humble. In the struggle to reintegrate child soldiers, a new model of youth emerges in Sierra Leone, a model informed by the global human rights regime but created in everyday practice at the intersection of the global and the local.
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ISSN	1475-4835 (Print) 1475-4843 (Online)
Tahun Terbit	2006
No. Induk	eja-21-0170
Entri Sumber Data	Taylor and Francis - Criminology and Law
Entri Utama Nama orang	Shepler, Susan
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 4, no. 2, p. 197-211
Subjek Topik
Barcode	eja-21-0170
Judul Utama	The Rites of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional