Hoffman Danny Hoffman

War Machines (eBook, PDF)

Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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Produktbeschreibung

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 manner of dangerous work. Drawing on his ethnographic research over the past nine years, as well as the anthropology of violence, interdisciplinary security studies, and contemporary critical theory, he maintains that the mobilization of West African men exemplifies a global trend in the outsourcing of warfare and security operations. A similar dynamic underlies the political economy of violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a growing number of postcolonial spaces. An experienced photojournalist, Hoffman integrates more than fifty of his photographs of young West Africans into The War Machines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394488
• Artikelnr.: 54815523

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: War Machines 1
I. Histories
1. The Mano River War: A Chronology 27
2. Hunters, Lumpens, and War Boys: A Social History of the Kamajors 55
3. States of Conflict: A Social History of the Kamajors Continued 88
II. Building The Barracks
4. Big Men, Small Boys 127
5. The Barracks 162
6. The Hotel Kamajor 194
7. The Magic of War 224
Conclusion: A Laboratory of the Future 252
Notes 261
Bibliography 273
Index 289