Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry
PART I: THE CONTECTS OF WAR
Chapter 1. Separated Children: Care and Support in
Context
Gillian Mann
Chapter 2. Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in
Post-war Mozambique
Victor Igreja
PART II: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS
Chapter 3. The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls
during Civil War in Teso, Uganda
Joanna de Berry
Chapter 4. A Neglected Perspective: Adolescent Girls'
Experiences of the Kosovo Conflict of 1999
Aisling Swaine with Thomas Feeny
PART III: WHAT IS A CHILD?
Chapter 5. The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil
War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Reintegration of
Child Soldiers
Jessica Schafer
Chapter 6. Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of
War of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment'
Harry G. West
Chapter 7. Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas
from Northern Uganda
Andrew Mawson
PART IV: CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES
Chapter 8. Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and
Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts
Krisjon Rae Olson
Chapter 9. Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities
in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan
Jason Hart
PART V: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND METHODS
Chapter 10. Researching Young People's Experiences of
War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola
Carola Eyber and Alastair Ager
Chapter 11. Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant
Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War
Mats Utas
Chapter 12. Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers
and Children in War
Jo Boyden
Postscript
Chapter 13. 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the
Work of War and the War of Work
Pamela Reynolds
Notes on Contributors
Index
Jo Boyden is a senior research officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
“This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations … [especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults.” • Children, Youth and Environments
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