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11%OFFDanny Hoffman - The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia - 9780822350774 - V9780822350774
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The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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Description for The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Paperback. Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. 320 pages, 51 photographs. Considers how young men in West Africa are made available for violent labour on battlefields and in diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 1HFDL; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; HBWS; JWXN. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 20. Weight: 620.
In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from grassroots community-defense organizations in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s into a large pool of mercenary labor.

Hoffman argues that in contemporary West Africa, space, sociality, and life itself are organized around making young men available for all ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822350774
SKU
V9780822350774
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Ref
99-1

About Danny Hoffman
Danny Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. As a photojournalist, he documented conflicts in southern Africa and the Balkans from 1994 to 1998.

Reviews for The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
“Hoffman’s book is at once a tightly-wound first person account of life amongst Sierra Leone’s ‘lumpen proletariat’ and an impressive work of economic and cultural theory. It is this unusual lens that makes The War Machines so thought-provoking, even for those intimately familiar with the Mano River War, and Hoffman provides enough background and context that it is still a ... Read more

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