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War and embodied memory : becoming disabled in Sierra Leone / Maria Berghs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berghs, Maria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disabled veterans--Sierra Leone.
- Disabled veterans.
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation--Sierra Leone.
- People with disabilities--Sierra Leone--Social conditions.
- People with disabilities.
- Postwar reconstruction--Social aspects--Sierra Leone.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- History.
- Peace.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation.
- Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002--Peace.
- Sierra Leone.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2012]
- Contents:
- Setting the scene: locating disability in Sierra Leone
- Introduction
- Locating Sierra Leone
- The political background of development
- NGOs and aid
- Government responses to disabled citizens
- Amputee and war-wounded: access to development or aid?
- Research aims and project summary
- Intersections between anthropology, disability, development and conflict
- Situating the research in disability studies
- Development, disability and conflict
- Conclusion
- A general historical and socio-cultural analysis of impairment and disability in Sierra Leone
- The traditional model of disability
- Impairment, disability and witchcraft
- The Atlantic slave trade and impairment
- Slavery and the foundations of colonialism
- The missionary, voluntary societies and healthcare segregation
- The 20th century and the individual medical model of disability
- The political background of the creation of disability
- The political background of the Sierra Leonean conflict
- Why amputation?
- The end of violence and impairment?
- Rebuilding and rehabilitating the nation state: creating national memory and disabled subjectivity?
- Anomaly and the link to "truth"
- The creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
- Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR)
- A special court for Sierra Leone
- Reparations
- Reparations from Charles Taylor and the diamond industry?
- Rebuilding the social world
- Shelter, land, living together and settlement sites
- Employment and education
- Medical care
- "An empty bag cannot stand alone": food security, agriculture and water
- Begging
- Multiple activities: multiple needs
- Managing life as an individual
- "I got my problem"
- The role of religion
- Ngos and gaining courage
- Disability mainstreaming and social activism
- Mainstreaming disability?
- Disabled people's social activism and the commodification of disability?
- "Disability" and socio-cultural resources
- Reparations, reintegration and peace
- The impact of reparations and reconciliation
- Contested and closing memories
- Corporate social responsibility and corruption
- Disability, development and the future
- In conclusion
- The big picture
- Main themes
- Disability, poverty and rights?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409442103
- 1409442101
- 9781409442110
- 140944211X
- OCLC:
- 798499940
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