War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone

By Maria Berghs

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138247197
• ISBN13: 9781138247192
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"