Luisa T. Schneider

Love and Violence in Sierra Leone

Mediating Intimacy after Conflict

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in post-civil war Sierra Leone, this ethnography explores the complex dynamics of love and violence after legal reforms. Examining the historical constitution and lived experience of love and violence, the book advocates for a nuanced approach, emphasizing local knowledge. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009533034
• ISBN-10: 1009533037
• Artikelnr.: 70287362

Autorenporträt

Dr Luisa T. Schneider is a sociocultural anthropologist, specializing in intimacy, violence, and law. Schneider is Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, a published academic and public author, and advisor to policymakers and practitioners. She has conducted ethnographic research which emphasizes the importance of local knowledge for over ten years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Access, Methodology and Ethics
2. The impact of violence on relationships
3. Loving and living relationships in Freetown today
4. The Spectrum of violence in relationships
5. The language of violence
6. Household and community mediations of violence
7. Invoking the State-when Adults report violence in their relationships to the Police
8. Minors before the Law-building futures, policing sex
9. Perpetrators? The consequence of the sexual offences Act for Young Men
Conclusion
References
Index.